Lesley Pascuzzi is a PhD candidate whose research focuses on creating opportunities to embed maternal mental health promotion within pregnancy care. With academic and clinical background as an Applied Psychologist in the United Kingdom and postgraduate qualifications in Perinatal Mental Health from the University of South Australia—where she received Chancellor’s Letters of Commendation—Lesley brings both academic and practical expertise to her work as a Lamaze childbirth educator, working closely with women during pregnancy to support their emotional preparation for labour, birth, and parenting. Passionate about strengthening mentally healthy mothers, Lesley has been a long-time maternity consumer advocate for equitable models of childbirth education for all. As a mother of three, she combines her own lived experience, professional experience and practice, and her PhD research insights to drive translational implementation that bridges policy into effective healthcare practice that prioritises mental health and wellbeing of women and mothers.