Dr. Jillian Busch was born and raised in Northern Illinois. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology/Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution at the University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign in 2001. She loved playing alto and tenor saxophones on The University of Illinois Premier Marching Band - The Marching Illini. Dr. Busch completed medical school in 2005 from the University of Illinois @ Chicago, and residency in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois - Neuropsychiatric Institute in Chicago, Illinois in 2009.

Dr. Busch has been Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology since 2010. She started her career, after residency, working in Boulder, CO at Boulder Community Hospital doing both inpatient and outpatient work. Subsequently, she did locum tenens (traveling psychiatry) work at inpatient facilities in Grand Junction, CO and LaCrosse, WI before settling down in Fort Collins, CO in 2011. She worked for several years at Colorado State University (CSU) seeing the university students through the health network and medical center on campus, which was a wonderful experience. After her time at CSU, she worked for nearly ten years at Mountain Crest Hospital in Fort Collins. She was embedded in the primary care clinic of Associates in Family Medicine, which was a role she truly loved - being able to practice collaborative medicine with her patient’s primary care providers. She also spent quite a bit of time treating patients on the adult and adolescent inpatient units at Mountain Crest. On some weekends while on call, she also helped out on the consult liaison psychiatry team at Poudre Valley Hospital.

She sees a diverse patient population from teenagers through seniors, neurodivergent identifying patients to patients who are enrolled in college, LGBTQI individuals to people just figuring out their identities, and female identifying patients through all phases of life to seniors navigating their lives at this phase. She truly enjoys meeting people, helping them navigate the trials of life, and connecting with them in a compassionate and caring manner.

While general adult psychiatry is her specialty, her other areas of interest include ADHD, depression, anxiety disorders, insomnia and other sleep disorders, bipolar disorder, and long-term individual psychotherapy, as well as eating disorders, body image/positivity, and obesity medicine/management.

When she is not working as a psychiatrist, you can find her spending time with her sweet family and their dog, Rhubarb, in the mountains hiking, foraging, skiing, hunting, backpacking, and camping. She has previously persevered the rigors of training for triathlons, including completing two Ironman Triathlons, and a multitude of other distance triathlons, with the half iron distance being her favorite. She has completed several half marathons, and several other shorter running races. She has dabbled with creative arts herself, and has enjoyed drawing, knitting, and being creative in the kitchen. Her biggest joys in life are being a mother and a wife and supporting her children (and husband) in their academic, musical, theatrical, artistic, social, domestic (baking and cooking), and athletic endeavors.