Counselor Interviews
Real counselors, real experiences.
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Counselor Interviews
Counselor Interviews
Counselor Interview: Janice
Counselor Interview: Bob
Counselor Interview: Lauren
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Bob (He/Him)
We discuss Bob's illustrious career in prenatal and cancer genetic counseling as well as his experience of being one of the first male counselors in a female-dominated profession.
Counselor Interview: Bob
Lauren (She/Her)
We talk to my friend Lauren about prenatal counseling, providing that counseling while managing her own fertility and pregnancy journey, and finding a balance between her career and motherhood.
Counselor Interview: Lauren
Susan (She/Her)
Susan and I discuss her role in Utilization Management within a hospital's lab system and how she decided that a non-direct care role was best for her.
Counselor Interview: Susan
Janice (She/Her)
Janice is the director of Bay Path University GC program, a completely remote degree. We talk about how she came to be a director, what makes an applicant special, and the differences with a totally remote program.
Counselor Interview: Janice
Matt (He/Him)
We discuss Matt's role as a laboratory genetic counselor, his experiences volunteering with NSGC, and his entrepreneurial endeavors using his counseling degree.
Counselor Interview: Matt
Janelle (She/Her)
We talk about Janelle's career path through multiple clinics and labs, eventually landing her in her current position of assistant program director. Janelle is one of a very few underrepresented race counselors in program administration.
Counselor Interview: Janelle
Cassidi (She/Her)
Cassidi is the manager of a team of genetic counselors for a large healthcare system. We talk about her role in supporting that team, patient outreach, and using her degree to improve counseling access.
Counselor Interview: Cassidi
Shayna (She/Her)
We discuss Shayna's role as a pediatric genetic counselor and her specialty of Neurofibromatosis.
Counselor Interview: Shayna
Liann (She/Her)
Liann and I meet just a short while after her graduation. We discuss her experience applying and going through school as a queer counselor of color and her capstone project to develop a patient education video on Sickle Cell Anemia.
Counselor Interview: Liann
Nathan (He/Him)
Nathan and I have an ADHD chat about how this condition has affected our work experience, the various skills he's developed during the course of his career, and his role in finding cancer's weakness.
Counselor Interview: Nathan
Ana (She/Her/They)
We talk about Ana's experience in cancer genetics and her take, as Latina, on the issues of race and diversity within the field of genetic counseling.
