Goals for Counselor Interviews
Any one genetic counselor's career path can look extremely different than another's. It's one thing to hear a certain specialty described or read a short synopsis, but totally another to speak to a counselor actually practicing.
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In these interviews, we sit down with counselors of many different specialties and talk about their work, their experiences as a counselor, and their accomplishments. The goal of these interviews is to flesh out what you can do in the course of your career and help you figure out where you might be comfortable in the field.
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Additionally, many applicants struggle to find shadowing experience or counselors to interview, so watching interviews like these can help you meet that prerequisite.
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A special thank you to the many counselors who participated in these interviews!
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Total video time: ~11 hours
Counselor Interviews
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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.​
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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.​
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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.​
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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.
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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.​
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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 the very few underrepresented race counselors in program administration.
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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.​
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Shayna (She/Her)
We discuss Shayna's role as a pediatric genetic counselor and her specialty of Neurofibromatosis.​
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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.
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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.
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Ana (She/Her)
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.