After years of training professionals and students in English communication, Ma. Teresa took on a second profession: pastoral counseling - focusing on grief and relationship issues. After her husband’s demise in 1997, she went through a grief workshop in Boson, Mass, and later in Manila, took courses that would allow her to practice professionally as a counselor. From 2007 until about 2020, she practiced and co-facilitated a grief support group, Healing Circles. In the process, she found herself not only listening to stories of loss but also to stories of the wounds and heartbreaks of other individuals, couples and families. Today Ma. Teresa finds fulfillment in leading people to rediscover and reconnect with their inner selves and their loved ones.