About the Psychiatrist
Dr Lyndsi Crowder
Education & Affiliations
BA (arts), MBBS (medicine), FRANZCP (psychiatry)
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Current Positions
Community Psychiatrist, NSW Health (Mon - Tues)
Private Psychiatrist (Wed- Fri)
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Mode of Practice
Face-to-face only
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Background
Dr Crowder was born and raised in the northeastern United States. She graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1998.
In 2004, she emigrated to Sydney where she studied medicine at the University of New South Wales, earning her medical degree, with honours, in 2010.​​ ​
After three years training in Emergency Medicine, she felt inspired to pursue psychiatry. She has since worked in public mental health settings across Greater Sydney, from Brookvale to Blacktown.
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Dr Crowder now divides her time between public and private practice, extending her care to people in the wider community who are living with mental illness, but without necessary psychiatric support.
She is especially committed to supporting those who have struggled to access private care due to cost, as well as those who have felt judged, misunderstood or dismissed in past healthcare encounters.
Model of Care
Dr Crowder is dedicated to helping people understand and find relief from psychological distress. She resists the modern tendency to over-medicalise human experience, and tries to distinguish carefully between human suffering, which may respond best to emotional, social or practical support, and mental illness, which may especially benefit from medical treatment. While psychiatry cannot perfectly separate distress that is natural to the human condition from illness, she believes this distinction matters.
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Dr Crowder approaches each patient with curiosity, compassion, and openness to complexity. She has a particular interest in the more destabilising mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, which call for specialist medical care and typically medication. But even here, she takes a gentle approach, using the lowest effective doses tailored to each patient’s recovery goals.
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Her broader mission is to help patients uncover the personal, developmental, social, and environmental factors that contribute to their suffering, and to support recovery in a way that respects both medical science and the spectrum of "normal" in human experience.