Centennial Counseling Offices
St Charles: 630-377-6613
Sandwich: 815-786-8606
Yorkville: 630-553-1600
Christie Mason, Ph.D., LCSW
Christie Mason has her Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, a Master's in Social Work from Aurora University, and a Ph.D. in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. She's been a therapist for more than 10 years and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Dr. Mason has extensive experience in working with children, adolescents and families especially in the areas of play therapy, foster care, sexual abuse/trauma, attachment problems, aggressive behavior, and crisis stabilization. Christie also enjoys working with adults and couples and is passionate about helping people connect in nourishing relationships with one another. She has worked as a therapist for child and adolescent sexual abuse survivors and as a coordinator of youth services at a not—for—profit agency, where she provided and supervised office—based, school—based, and community—based counseling.
In addition to her work as a clinician, Christie has also taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in social work at Loyola University Chicago and Aurora University. She edited a journal of student scholarship while at Loyola, and she recently completed research on therapies to help late—placed foster or adopted children and their parents. Christie has presented at professional trainings and community events on topics including the impact of domestic violence on children, attachment in foster children, play therapy, avoiding control struggles with children, and working with child survivors of trauma and abuse. She works out of the St. Charles office.