Dr. Grant Brenner is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City, where he has taught and supervised for over a decade. Dr. Brenner is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and holds certificates in Psychoanalysis and Organizational Psychodynamics from The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Psychoanalysis in New York City where he served in a variety of leadership roles. Dr. Brenner is on faculty at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he teaches a seminar in the Neurobiology of Trauma. He has completed certificate programs in the treatment of trauma and dissociation from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He has been in private practice since 2002, where Dr. Brenner provides treatment with psychotherapy, medication management, general psychiatric services and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Dr. Brenner is active in non-profit disaster mental health, having volunteered with Disaster Psychiatry Outreach (DPO) in 2000, and in various roles including Vice President until 2018 when DPO was acquired by Vibrant Emotional Health. In 2018 DPO became the Crisis Emotional Care Team (CECT), part of Vibrant’s Disaster Services. Brenner now serves on the Board of Directors of Vibrant, and is Co-Chair of the CECT Advisory Board. He is currently Chairing Vibrant’s 2024 Disaster Behavioral Health Conference, We The Resilient. Brenner serves on the Board of Directors of Languages of Care, and is Advisor to Greenleaf Integrative, both groups providing crisis and resilience-related training and services. Dr. Brenner is active in professional and public mental health education and social media, and is a popular author and podcaster. He has co-authored three books on relationships and personal growth, Irrelationship: How We Use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy; Relationship Sanity: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Relationships; and Making Your Crazy Work For You: From Trauma and Isolation to Self-Acceptance and Love (Central Recovery Press). He is sole author of the Psychology Today blog ExperiMentations: Reflections on the Human Condition, with over 300 posts, surpassing 13.5 million views. His professional writings include numerous journal articles and chapters, and editing, and writing chapters within, books including Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work (Routledge) and Disaster Psychiatry: Readiness, Evaluation and Treatment, 2nd Edition (American Psychoanalytic Association Publishing, anticipated Fall 2024). Dr. Brenner co-hosts the lifestyle, wellness and mental health podcast Doorknob Comments, and has made numerous media appearances and publications for outlets including NPR, Forbes and USA Today. Brenner has organized several professional conferences in disaster response and mental health, and recently co-founded the Urban Dreams Mental Health Film Festival, which had its second successful run in May of 2024 screening over 30 short films covering a range of topics. Raised in New Jersey, Dr. Brenner attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, completed medical training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ, completed two years of General Surgical Residency at Long Island Jewish Hospital in Long Island, New York, before going on to complete Psychiatric Residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Brenner is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He has received numerous awards for teaching and service, including the 2004 Gold Level POTUS Volunteer Service Award from the President’s Council on Service and Civil Participation, the 2015 inaugural Ivan Goldberg Outstanding Service Award from the New York County District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association, and two-time recipient of the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Max Needleman Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Brenner has been a resident of New York City since 1997, and enjoys spending time with his family, pursing creative and artistic pursuits, most notably photography and writing.