Lyndsay Elliott

The people who find their way to Lyndsay Elliott tend to arrive carrying something that has been building for a while — anxiety that won’t settle, a marriage under strain, a family pattern that keeps repeating, or the particular exhaustion of a professional who can’t remember the last time work actually stayed at work. Elliott is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Corona Del Mar, California, with more than twenty years of experience working with adults, couples, teenagers, and professionals navigating these kinds of real, complicated pressures.

Her practice draws on cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and solution-focused approaches, woven together according to what each person actually needs. She has a particular focus on narcissistic personality dynamics and difficult family relationships — the family-of-origin tensions, coparenting conflicts, infidelity, and communication breakdowns that resist easy resolution. Online sessions are available.

What shapes Elliott’s work most is a conviction that the therapeutic relationship itself is the engine of change. From the first session, she works with clients to name their goals clearly, then traces how past experience is quietly shaping the present. The aim is not simply to manage symptoms but to understand them well enough that something genuinely shifts.