You Don't Have to Navigate Adoption Alone.
Personalized guidance, preparation, and support for prospective adoptive parents - from your first questions through the decisions ahead.
Ways to Work Together
Adoption Clarity Session
$350 one time
90-minute private consultation plus personalized summary/direction.
Outcome: greater clarity about the journey, priorities, direction, and next steps.
My Adoption Doula™ Private Support
$500/month
Three-month initial commitment
Two 45-minute sessions monthly
Reasonable between-session email/voice-note access
Ongoing personalized guidance
Outcome: continuity, preparation, personalized guidance, and someone in the client's corner as the journey evolves.
Personalized Adoption Search & Strategy
$750 one time
Individualized consulting/research
Personalized Adoption Roadmap
60-90 minute strategy consultation
Outcome: a focused, informed, personalized path rather than generic adoption information.
Not sure which is right for you?
Meet Your Adoption Doula
Ayo Haynes, MBA is an adoptive mother through open adoption and became a single mother by choice through adoption in her 40s.
Her daughter has grown up within an open-adoption relationship.
Ayo brings lived experience plus decades of professional experience in communication, strategy, advocacy, negotiation, entrepreneurship, and helping people navigate consequential decisions.
She founded Open Adoption Success™ to help families approach adoption with greater preparation, dignity, openness, and understanding.
Core statement: I know what it feels like to sit on your side of the table.
Do not portray Ayo as an attorney, licensed adoption agency, placement professional, or home-study provider.
Adoption Doesn’t End at Placement.
Adoption is not a single moment. It is a lifelong journey.
While placement may mark the beginning of a new chapter, it doesn’t end the questions, relationships, or emotions that can unfold over time.
For adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families, adoption can shape how we understand identity, family, culture, belonging, and origin—often in ways that evolve throughout a lifetime.
Open Adoption Success™ is the education, philosophy, and thought-leadership platform created to help people navigate that lifelong journey with greater understanding, intention, and compassion.
It’s about moving beyond simply having an open adoption to understanding what it means to build and sustain meaningful relationships across the adoption constellation.
Because openness isn't just about staying connected.
It’s about creating connection with intention.
Where Are You in Your Adoption Journey?
The Parenthood Through Adoption Clarity Assessment™ helps you identify what you already know, what deserves deeper
thought, and what may be most useful to explore before your next adoption decision.
