Joanna Haydon, JD, LCSW
Specialized Therapy for Adults in St. Louis, Missouri and Illinois
Therapy for high-achieving women navigating anxiety, working motherhood, OCD, infertility, surrogacy, relationships, and major life transitions.
I also work with men navigating OCD, infertility, surrogacy, and relationship concerns.
You’re capable of carrying a lot. That doesn’t mean it isn’t costing you something.
St. Louis, Missouri ● Online Therapy in Chicago & throughout Missouri and Illinois
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You can be successful, capable, and doing well on paper while still feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or exhausted underneath it all.
My practice has a particular focus on high-achieving women, alongside specialized work with adults navigating OCD, infertility, surrogacy, relationships, and major life transitions.
While what brings you to therapy may look different, you may be accustomed to managing difficult things on your own, understanding your struggles intellectually, or continuing to function even when something doesn’t feel right underneath.
Perhaps you recognize yourself here:
You accomplish a great deal but rarely feel satisfied for long.
You overthink decisions, conversations, or other people’s reactions.
You find yourself caught in repetitive thoughts or behaviors that are difficult to stop.
You struggle to ask for help or let other people see you struggling.
Your relationships bring up anxiety, uncertainty, conflict, or fears you don’t fully understand.
Infertility or family-building has brought up grief, uncertainty, or a loss of control—and you find yourself feeling increasingly disconnected from your partner.
You understand your patterns intellectually but still feel unable to change them.
You may already know how to set a boundary, challenge a thought, or practice self-care.
The harder part is understanding why setting a boundary brings up so much guilt.
Why slowing down feels unsafe.
Why uncertainty can feel so difficult to tolerate.
Why knowing what you “should” do doesn’t always change how you feel.
Therapy together will offer the opportunity to understand what lies beneath these types of experiences to create meaningful, lasting change.
There is often a deeper story beneath these experiences—one that deserves time, space,
and careful attention.
Specialized Therapy for Adults
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Therapy for High-Achieving Women
For women navigating anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, demanding careers, relationships, and the pressure to always hold everything together.
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Motherhood & Postpartum Therapy
For women navigating postpartum anxiety or depression, working-mother burnout, identity changes, resentment, guilt, and the emotional complexity of becoming and being a mother.
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OCD & ERP Therapy
OCD can leave you questioning your thoughts, memories, decisions, relationships, or sense of safety—even when part of you recognizes that the fear may not be reasonable.
I provide ERP for adults experiencing intrusive thoughts, checking, reassurance seeking, mental reviewing, contamination fears, “just-right” rituals, relationship OCD, and perinatal or postpartum OCD.
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Surrogacy & Third-Party Reproduction
Gestational surrogacy, egg donation, and embryo donation can bring hope and possibility, along with complex emotional, and relational questions.
I work with intended parents and individuals surrogacy, including questions around decision-making, relationships, pregnancy, birth, bonding, and the transition to parenthood.
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Infertility and Pregnancy Loss
I provide specialized therapy for adults navigating infertility, IVF, pregnancy loss, failed embryo transfers, and the uncertainty and grief that can accompany family building.
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Relationship Therapy
For adults who feel disconnected, overly responsible, uncertain, or caught in relationship patterns they understand but cannot seem to change.
A MOVE TOWARDS DEEPER WORK
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
Hi, I’m Joanna.
Before becoming a psychotherapist, I spent more than a decade working as an attorney.
I understand the culture of high achievement—the pressure to remain capable, think quickly, anticipate problems, and continue performing regardless of what may be happening internally.
My own path eventually led me toward work that made room for the parts of life that cannot be reasoned through or solved by working harder.
Today, I work with high-achieving women and adults navigating the emotional complexities of careers, relationships, OCD, infertility, and family building. I offer a thoughtful, engaged therapeutic relationship in which you do not have to minimize what you are carrying or arrive with everything already figured out.
Clients often come to me because they want more than generic advice or temporary reassurance. They want to better understand themselves, experience their relationships differently, and create change that feels meaningful and lasting.
My clinical training includes advanced study in psychodynamic psychotherapy, OCD and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), infertility and third-party reproduction, and perinatal mental health.
