DR. JOY BROWNE

Dr. Joy Browne, also known as Dr. Joy, was an American talk show host, specializing in advice counselling. She hosted a nationally syndicated call-in talk show for several decades, heard on numerous radio stations in the U.S. and Canada. Browne did her graduate work at Northeastern University in Boston, earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology.

She was a licensed clinical psychologist who was first on the air in Boston at WITS, where she hosted a program called Up Close and Personal in the late 1970s. She later hosted call-in shows on radio stations in San Francisco and New York City. Her syndicated show was one of the longest-running call-in therapy shows in the United States. Browne took a no-nonsense approach to callers, trying to zero in on a problem without getting caught up in a caller's long stories or digressions. Browne's call-in therapy show was heard for two decades at 710 WOR in New York and was syndicated to other cities, ending in December 2012.

Beginning in January 2013, Dr. Joy was heard on Radio America from Noon-3p.m. ET on weekdays. On September 8, 2014, she switched to the Genesis Communications Network (GCN), continuing her syndicated radio show in the same time slot, before passing away in 2016, at the age of 71.