Fractal House Staff

Meet the Team

Peer Counseling

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Psychotherapy

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Peer Support

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Community Support

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Case Management

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Peer Counseling ✳︎ Psychotherapy ✳︎ Peer Support ✳︎ Community Support ✳︎ Case Management ✳︎

Flo Crew (she/hers), CRSS, CADC

Fractal House Peer Support Worker

Peer Support, Community Support, Substance Use Peer Support, 12-step Sponsorship, Case Managment

I support people who are trying to navigate mental health issues in a complex world. To me, peer mentorship means helping individuals make their voices heard, advocating for and alongside you, and sharing the survival skills I have developed through my own journey.

  • With decades of personal experience navigating psychiatric systems, neurodivergent thinking, and LGBTQIA+ experiences, I provide a grounded, judgment-free space. I am proud to have maintained a long-term recovery journey and remain an active member of the recovery community. I listen closely to what you say and how you say it, always respecting where you are currently at and focusing entirely on where you want to go. People often describe my presence as highly helpful, and my extensive background in psychoanalytic therapy helps me stay deeply in tune with the needs of others.

    • You have a specific goal you want to work on.

    • You are navigating your relationship with psychiatric systems, substance use recovery, or religious/spiritual programs.

    • You identify as neurodivergent or are exploring your gender identity.

    • Substance use

    • Older adults

    • nursing home residents

    • AA sponsorship/support

Lauren Hersch (she/they), LCSW

Fractal House Executive Director

Psychotherapy, Community Support, Case Management, You Are Here Program Co-Facilitator

I am a therapist and community organizer dedicated to expanding access to meaningful, human-to-human healing supports. My approach is grounded in the belief that healing happens through connection, creativity, purpose, and belonging. My work emphasizes collaboration, dignity, self-determination, and the value of lived experience.

  • I have over 15 years of direct service experience in the field of social work. My early career was spent working with folks who have developmental disabilities, before moving into clinical work in community mental health, where I specialize working with folks who experience extreme states, altered states and crisis states.

    I am passionate about creating spaces where people can explore their experiences without judgement, build supportive relationships, and define wellness on their own terms. I honor self-definition, self-expression and self-directed engagement.

    As a mad provider of the ADHD variety, I have great respect for the variance in us all!

    Training:

    Psychoanalytic Certificate Program 2022, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program, 2020, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis

    DBT Certificate 2019

    • You experience extreme states, crisis states, suicidality, hear voices, see visions,

    • Identify as mad, neurodivergent, disabled

    • You are navigating your relationship with psychiatric systems, medication management (including going off medication)

    • You identify as spiritual or religious and/or are navigating challenges related to spirituality or religiosity

    • You have iatrogenic trauma, medical model trauma, psychiatric trauma

    • Extreme States, crisis states, suicidality

    • Chronic and Severe Psychological Distress

    • Parasensory experience, voice hearing, vision hearing, altered states

    • Developmental Disability

    • Neurodivergence

Jazz Jones (they/them), CRSS

Fractal House Peer Services Director

Peer Counseling, Community Support, Performing Arts Mentorship, Case Management, BEcoming Program Facilitator

To me, peer mentorship is a chance to use my lived experience and story of recovery to inspire hope and self-determination in others while creating safe spaces for peers to exist and thrive. As a Black, queer, and neurodivergent individual, I know firsthand what it means to navigate systems not designed with people like me in mind.

  • I have close to 10 years of experience in the field of peer work, and over 15 years of experience in the field of sexuality and relationships. I’ve worked as a sex educator, performer, Living Room Peer Support Worker, Peer Supervisor and Program Coordinator.

    People often describe my presence as warm, comforting, and deeply grounded. In a peer counseling session with me, you can always expect to feel fully seen and heard. I make it a priority to create a flexible, open space for whatever unique needs come up for you in the moment.

    I am especially passionate about supporting people as they figure out how to navigate the world and find a healthy, sustainable balance between self-care and work. And, as a creative myself, I care deeply about supporting artists and creatives through their unique challenges. I believe we are experts in our own lives and approach everyone without judgement. 

    • You are avigating neurodivergence, extreme states, crisis situations or suicidality

    • A direct service worker experiencing burnout or other work challenges 

    • Identifying as a creative, artist, or performer

    • Part of the LGBTQIA+ community, kink or poly identified 

    • A sex worker or involved in sex work

    • Navigating marginalized or minoritized identities

    • Sex Work, Sexuality, Relationships

    • LGBTQIA+, Kink, Poly Identified

    • Racialized and Minoritized Identity and Experience

    • Peer Work

    • Performing Arts

    • Coping Skills Development and Practice

Matt Bodett (we/he/him), MFA, RSS,

Fractal House Peer Mentor & Curriculum Coordinator

Center for Mad Culture Founder & Director

Peer Mentorship, Art Mentorship, Community Support, Hearing Voices Peer Support, You Are Here Program Co-Facilitator

I am a psych survivor, voice hearer, and artist dedicated to supporting others through extreme states and alternative ways of being. My work is grounded in compassion and a desire to help you navigate and understand your experiences—whether that involves transitioning away from medicalized language, exploring your identity, or simply having a difficult day.

  • I have over 25 years combined experience as a teacher, mentor and artist. In 2022, I founded the Center for Mad Culture. Our Mission is to create mad historical awareness, build personal advocacy, expand cultural expression, and engage in community activism.

    In a mentorship session with me, you can expect a balancing and grounded presence. I specialize in accompanying folx as they undo barriers of shame and explore the complexity of madness, often incorporating creative and expressive practices like poetry and drawing.

    Drawing on my own journey—including surviving suicide attempts, navigating a past SMI diagnosis, and transitioning my spiritual background from Mormonism to Buddhism—I help others locate their unique identities and find wisdom in their experiences.

    I believe that we all have purpose and wisdom in our experiences, and that we can find balance and safety in community with others who support our unique ways of being in the world. You don't have to journey alone.

    Training:

    2026 Disability Lead Fellow

    • Navigating extreme states, voice hearing, or para-sensory experiences.

    •  Experiencing crisis situations and/or suicidality 

    • Identifying as a creative, artist, or part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

    • Looking to explore your madness through a lens of empowerment and community rather than clinical terms.

    • Navigating medication management, including moving off medication

    • Processing psychiatric trauma and navigating engagement with the psychiatric system

    • Extreme States, crisis states, suicidality

    • Parasensory experience, voice hearing, vision hearing, altered states

    • Mad, Disabled, Neurodivergent

    • Art, Research, Writing