Eating disorder treatment places clinicians in a uniquely complex ethical position, requiring ongoing attention to autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, safety, and high-stakes medical and psychological risk. This presentation examines clinician mental health as an essential component of ethical practice, particularly for Jewish clinicians navigating increased antisemitism, antizionism, invalidation, and moral distress within professional and clinical environments. Participants will explore how sustained stress, isolation, and threat may affect clinical attunement, reflective judgment, ethical decision-making, and professional functioning.

Drawing on experience facilitating support groups for Jewish clinicians, the session explores moral distress, clinician burnout, and collective approaches to professional resilience. Participants will examine parallels between resisting diet culture in eating disorder treatment and navigating anti-Jewish invalidation—both requiring values-based clarity, tolerance of discomfort, and recognition of harmful narratives. Through conceptual teaching, de-identified clinical vignettes, and facilitated reflection, participants will develop frameworks applicable to supervision, consultation, and organizational practice, with emphasis on ethical risk management and collective structures that support clinician competence and patient care. In this way, supporting clinicians becomes a matter of Pikuach Nefesh, the preservation of life, not only for providers themselves, but also for the quality and safety of patient care, as clinician burnout and distress have been associated with diminished professional functioning and adverse impacts on care.