Jill Chaudhuri is a UCSF-trained, board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner based in San Francisco. She began her career as a registered nurse before becoming a nurse practitioner, working across community mental health, psychiatric crisis care, and emergency services, early psychosis treatment, and psychodynamically-informed outpatient psychiatry. Working across medical and psychiatric settings shaped her whole-person approach to care and deepened her appreciation for the complex relationship between mental, physical, and emotional well-being.

She also has experience leading a crisis stabilization unit, which gave her an understanding of mental health care at both the systems level and the individual level.

Over the course of her career, she has sat with people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives — navigating poverty, psychosis, suicidality, and trauma, and the kind of suffering that doesn't fit neatly into a diagnostic code. Those experiences shaped not only her clinical skills, but also her understanding of what people actually need in order to heal.

Jill’s understanding of healing is also informed by personal experience. A complex PTSD diagnosis took her on a path to healing, leading her to recognize patterns she'd long normalized. Through a range of therapy modalities, she slowly learned to regulate a nervous system that had been on high alert for years, rebuild her sense of identity, and trust herself again. That journey didn't just change her life; it changed how she understands healing itself — what's underneath before anything can shift, and what it actually takes to come home to who you really are.

What she has come to understand, through both her clinical work and her own life, is that many of the struggles we experience as adults aren't signs of brokenness. They're adaptive responses to difficult experiences, relationships, and environments — responses that once kept us safe, but can eventually leave us anxious, disconnected, and distant from ourselves.

That understanding shapes everything she does. At Soulfloria Psychiatry, Jill integrates evidence-based psychiatric care with relational, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed perspectives — not simply to manage symptoms, but to understand the story beneath them. She believes meaningful psychiatric care happens when a person feels genuinely seen and understood, not simply reduced to a diagnosis — supported by both clinical skill and genuine curiosity about who they really are.