About Me

Margaret L. Mason, LCPC, ADTR, has a broad background in counseling, the arts and education. She is currently a therapist at The Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago, a not-for-profit, non-denominational organization offering individuals, couples and groups in-depth psychotherapy that engages the psychological, spiritual and social dimensions of experience. Margaret completed the Center's Advanced Certificate Program in the Self Psychology and Religion.

As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a member of the Academy of Registered Dance/Movement Therapists (ADTR), Margaret brings specialized knowledge of body and movement expression to her clinical work. As a certified Imago Relationship Therapist and workshop presenter, she helps individuals understand their relationship patterns and couples develop a more conscious, intentional relationship. Couples enhance their relationship by learning to attune both verbally and non-verbally as a means of facilitating empathic connection.

Margaret was on the faculty at the University of Illinois for twenty years. She is an adjunct faculty member in the graduate Dance/Movement Therapy program at Columbia College Chicago and has also taught in the "Expressive Arts and Creativity Concentration" at the Chicago Professional School of Psychology.

Margaret is the widow of Randall C. Mason who was the founding director of the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago and was a Certified Clinical Instructor and workshop presenter of Imago Relationship Therapy. She and Randy led workshops together for many years. Margaret is the mother of three grown daughters and seven grandchildren.

"If relationships constitute the core of well-being and vitality, as I suggest here, empathy can be seen as the connective tissue of relationships and empathic breaks as lacerations. Empathy and its accompanying sense of connection bring about a cohesive centered firmness of the self; empathic breaks and disconnection lead to the self's enfeeblement and fragmentation. This inner cohesiveness, which enables one to "hold" one's own reality, is a reflection of the connection within the relationship; that connection, in turn, depends on the empathic milieu." Randall C. Mason (1996). Imago, Relationships, and Empathy. The Journal of Imago RelationshipTherapy, 1(2).