Dr. Joanne

**Dr. Joanne** is a recurring character in *Tuca & Bertie*. She is currently Bertie's therapist. She is an olive sparrow.

## Bio

### Physical Appearance

Dr. Joanne wears a black blazer with pockets over a chartreuse top with dark magenta pants. She sports black heels with white laces and wears a pendant. She wears a watch on her right wrist.

### Personality

Not much is known about Dr. Joanne, she was introduce as a therapist during Season 2.

Dr. Joanne seems to be calm and collective during therapy sessions with her clients. She is shown to be thoughtful and considerate towards others. She also shows to have a sense of humor when it comes to situations where her clients feel anxious or uncertain. She finds humor in pottery failed videos and gets excited when it comes to horror movies.

## Background

### Season 2

Dr. Joanne debuted in *Bird Mechanics*, she was first seen telling Bertie she is welcome to see as many therapists as she likes in general. When Bertie asked if she was worried about others not choosing her, she simply responds to Bertie saying that she may be the best therapist in the world but may not be the right for Bertie or anyone else. Bertie states she wants to fix her panic attacks due to being a burden towards Tuca and Speckle. Dr. Joanne tells Bertie she doesn't need to fix herself before letting others in resulting Bertie to find other therapists in hopes to fix her panic attacks. Feeling indifferent, she ended up offering Bertie to watch pottery failed videos during the rest of the unused session time.

She reappears in Bertie's 'haunted house' in Two Twigs reciting that she doesn't need to fix herself before letting others in and explains that they don't mind that she's haunted. This made Bertie realized the loved ones in her life already don't mind the way she is.

In *Kyle*, after Bertie tells her situation to Dr. Joanne about her Dirk from work. She encourages Bertie to try a technique to create an inner bird thus creating Kyle. After Bertie describing her inner bird to her, she finds it interesting how Bertie's inner bird is a bird bro. She mentions any client of hers that tired this technique usual pictures themselves in a power suit.

During *Vibe Check*, we see Dr. Joanne having a session with Bertie. Bertie mentions about having taboo fantasies about her abusive boss and her assault incident. While Bertie believes her assault might of ruined her sexuality, Dr. Joanne responds to her stating that it is healthy and normal to feel arousal while processing trauma. She stated that sexuality is complicated in general. She suggested Bertie's past experience led her in the present to experience power and taboo fantasies due to her being in control as a part of her healing journey. She also suggest to Bertie might of be into this stuff. Bertie wonders why her trauma keeps coming back now and then Dr. Joanne responds by saying trauma has its way reappearing during inconvenient times mainly through the holidays. She made a metaphor calling this situation 'bad plumbing'. She tells Bertie that this healing journey takes time and made sure she will work this out with her.

Bertie asked how can she confront Speckle about her trauma, Dr. Joanne simply responds to just talk to him about it. When Bertie's time session was up, Bertie suggest she could talk to Speckle about it. However, Dr. Joanne declines and tells Bertie her next client is a real piece of work and she would like to use some time to psych herself up for the next session. She reminds Bertie to retrieve a piece of her foot she almost forgot.

## Relationships

#### Bertie

At the end of Bird Mechanics, Bertie ended up choosing Dr. Joanne to be her current therapist. Throughout Season 2, she maintains a professional relationship with Bertie as a client and therapist. She was able to guide Bertie through her traumas and encourages her to use good coping mechanisms.

## Trivia

* She might be a black-whiskered vireo.
* She's a huge fan of Muriel Nocturna. She got two copies of one of Muriel's movies, "*Cannibal Sex Monkeys"* on Blu-ray Disc and loves her latest film, "*Screech Leeches.*"