For Teresa, animals and animal issues provide the core meaning, guidance, joy, and purpose of her life. She believes passionately that it is time for our relationship with animals to evolve--beyond the love, companionship, inspiration, joy, exhilaration, wisdom and  healing we receive from animals to move on to accelerating our giving back to the animals--by helping those who face and suffer from myriad threats of human activity on the earth. With such reciprocity our relationships with animals are more balanced, mutually healing and whole. Animals are not here to simply give to us. We are here on earth together. Those of us who love animals, and especially those of us who receive so much from them, have a responsibility to give back and help them.

Teresa has been offering grief support services for people who have lost their animals since 1986, and began her professional animal communication work in 1991, though she has talked with animals since her childhood. Today she maintains an active animal communication practice, teaching schedule, and is writing a series of books on our relationship with animals, in addition to her audio book on grief, Legacies of Love, and a series of other educational CDs currently available. Teresa is a contributing author in the books Animals in Spirit by Penelope Smith and Dolphins and Whales Forever. She also founded and leads the Animal Loss and Grief Support Certification Program—an in-depth program to train pet loss grief counselors. She has worked with thousands of clients in her practice and classes from the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, and Taiwan.

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