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.
Select the talk that fits your audience — or contact Dr. Pasqua to customize for your event, goals, and timeframe.
Suicide and overdose are now leading causes of maternal mortality — not hemorrhage or infection. Yet the systems designed to support mothers continue to operate as if a screening tool and resource list constitute a safety net. Dr. Pasqua maps the three structural failures driving the crisis — screening without follow-through, providers in silos, and systems that abandon mothers precisely when they need the most support — and makes the case that this is a systems problem. And it is solvable.
Formats: 45–60 min keynote (with audience-specific cost section) · 20–30 min breakout · Grand Rounds
Best for: Large conferences, hospital systems, corporate wellness, community leadership events
Maternal mental health is not a solo endeavor. Mothers need informed, connected, responsive care across the entire postpartum year — from screening to intervention to warm referrals. This talk equips birth professionals, OB/GYNs, pediatricians, therapists, doulas, and lactation consultants with the knowledge and systems thinking to recognize perinatal mental health concerns, respond effectively, and build collaborative referral pathways.
Formats: 45–60 min keynote · Grand Rounds presentation
Best for: Grand Rounds, professional conferences, provider networks, hospital CME, clinical training
You spent months preparing your birth plan. But what happens after the baby arrives? This workshop helps expecting and new parents create a realistic postpartum plan — one that addresses recovery, identity change, emotional wellbeing, support systems, boundaries, and early recognition of postpartum mental health concerns.
Format: 60–90 min workshop
Best for: Childbirth education, parent groups, employer wellness programs, community organizations, healthcare institutions
Anxiety in motherhood shows up as worry, perfectionism, hypervigilance, identity confusion, and overwhelming guilt. But you're not broken — you're in a full developmental transition. Dr. Pasqua reframes motherhood anxiety as evidence of love, not danger, and teaches practical tools from DBT and somatic practice to regulate your nervous system through every stage: pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.
Format: 60–90 min workshop · standalone or paired with Beyond the Birth Plan as a 2-part series · optional return-to-work add-on
Best for: Parent groups, mom communities, corporate wellness, women's organizations, mental health nonprofits
A family systems, equity-centered introduction to perinatal mental health for providers, birth professionals, and organizations ready to move beyond screening toward real support. Delivered to provider audiences, this training addresses who the system serves well, who it fails, and how to build care that reaches every mother.
Format: 45–60 min training
Best for: Provider networks, birth professional training, task forces, health equity initiatives
The skills at the heart of Dialectical Behavior Therapy — mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness — aren't just clinical tools. They're the foundation of how people stay steady under pressure, communicate through conflict, and lead without burning out. 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. She delivers practical, immediately usable DBT skills training customized to your setting:
Because a workshop alone rarely changes practice, trainings can be paired with ongoing group consultation — the way DBT was designed to be implemented — so skills actually take root in your team's daily work. Every engagement includes pre- and post-training measures, so your leadership sees what changed.
Formats: Half-day · full-day · multi-day team retreats · training + monthly consultation programs
Best for: Agencies and group practices, treatment programs, schools, healthcare teams, employers and leadership teams
"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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