Dr. Pasqua speaks to hospital systems, clinical providers, employers, schools, and parents about maternal mental health, matrescence, raising resilient kids, and building the infrastructure families deserve — from one of the few voices with 20+ years spanning perinatal care and child & adolescent clinical work.
Three audiences, three lanes. Keynotes open the conversation; workshops and training programs carry it into practice.
Burnout in high performers doesn't look like falling apart. It looks like doing the job while something goes out of it. This keynote names what high-achieving professionals have been rewarded for — composure — and what it quietly costs: the early warning signs high achievers miss, the cynicism that is actually self-protection, and the honest truth most wellness talks skip: you cannot breathe your way out of an unsustainable workload. Audiences leave with sixty-second regulation tools, a script for the conversation they've been avoiding, and a different question: not "how can I keep pushing?" but "what needs to change?"
Formats: 40–60 min keynote · works with zero slides · tool card for every seat
Best for: Professional associations, leadership events, corporate offsites, women's professional groups
Pairs with: Regulated, Responsive Leadership™ — the hands-on follow-on below
The keynote changes what your people see; this program changes what they do. A skills-based leadership training built on the same architecture — self-regulation, relational responsiveness, and sustainable systems — delivered as a half-day or full-day workshop, or as a training-plus-consultation program so the skills actually take root. Stress regulation under pressure, dialectical thinking for polarized teams, communication that holds up in conflict, and the workload conversations leaders avoid. Pre- and post-training measures included, so your leadership sees what changed.
Formats: Half-day · full-day · training + monthly consultation
Best for: Leadership teams, manager cohorts, high-pressure professional teams
Suicide and overdose are now leading causes of maternal mortality — not hemorrhage or infection. Yet the systems designed to support mothers still operate as if a screening tool and a resource list constitute a safety net. Dr. Pasqua maps the three structural failures driving the crisis — screening without follow-through, providers in silos, and support that ends precisely when the hardest part begins — then costs the gap in the room's own terms: clinical and generational for health systems and communities, turnover and lost institutional knowledge for employers. One talk, tailored to who's listening. And it closes with role-specific action, because the gap is closeable.
Formats: 45–60 min keynote · 20–30 min breakout · Grand Rounds
Best for: Conferences, hospital systems, employers, community leadership events
Pairs with: Keeping Working Parents — a 45-min lunch-and-learn or half-day workshop on the manager behaviors and return-to-work structures that retain mothers
Your providers leave knowing how to make screening lead somewhere: recognizing perinatal mental health concerns, responding with trauma-informed language, and building warm referral pathways that close the loop across disciplines.
Formats: 45–60 min keynote · Grand Rounds · Best for: Grand Rounds, provider networks, hospital CME, clinical conferences
After this training, your team can tell what's normal from what's not, ask the questions that surface real distress, and refer without losing the mother in the gap — with an equity lens that reaches the families the system misses most.
Format: 45–60 min training · Best for: Provider networks, birth professional training, task forces, health equity initiatives
Your clinicians walk in Monday with DBT tools that work in session — mindfulness, emotion regulation, and felt-safety strategies sized for children, teens, and young adults with emotional dysregulation. Dr. Pasqua completed comprehensive DBT training through Behavioral Tech, a year-long DBT-C training with Dr. Francheska Perepletchikova — the developer of the model — and built her own practice's comprehensive DBT program. Trainings integrate with TF-CBT, EMDR, play therapy, and attachment-based models, with case consultation built in. For school teams: regulation and co-regulation skills for educators, counselors, and student support staff. Because a workshop alone rarely changes practice, trainings pair with ongoing group consultation — the way DBT was designed to be implemented — and every engagement includes pre- and post-training measures.
Formats: Half-day · full-day · multi-day retreats · training + monthly consultation · Best for: Agencies, group practices, treatment programs, school clinical teams
Three workshops that work alone or as a progression — from pregnancy planning, through the identity transformation of new motherhood, to the anxiety that shows up at every stage. For birth centers, childbirth educators, hospitals, parent groups, and community organizations.
Formats: 50–90 min each · bookable individually or as a series · Best for: Birth centers, childbirth education programs, hospitals and birth fairs, parent groups, employer parent ERGs
"Thank you so much for providing such a thoughtful, insightful, and valuable training to the Working Parents today. We have a Google chat group and the group was buzzing with how helpful your information was, and how dynamic you were. I'm really grateful to have had the chance to bring you in to speak."
"Inspiring — and gave me tools that I could take home to use with my kids. And honestly a ton for myself."
"Her training hit your head and your heart."
Tell me about your event, your audience, and your goals — and we'll build the right talk together.
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