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Destinations with DoniPaulette, Rebekah and Brianne on Ancestral TraumaOn this episode of the Destinations Podcast with Doni Aldine, Brianne Kirkpatrick Williams, Rebekah Drumsta and Dr. Paulette Bethel talk about ancestral trauma as well as cultural integration with genes and DNA.
Kirkpatrick Williams, Drumsta and Bethel also talk about how the three met via the Not Parent Expected (NPE) Network.
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Destinations with DoniThe Destinations Podcast with Doni Aldine: Brianne Kirkpatrick Williams on Being a Genetic CounselorThis episode of the Destinations Podcast with Doni Aldine features genetic counselor Brianne Kirkpatrick Williams.
Kirkpatrick Williams talks about how she became a genetic counselor and how she helps people both find their biological parents as well as deal with finding out the people they thought were their biological parents aren't actually their biological parents.
"There are many different people impacted by one person's conception," she says. "And everybody needs support because you can't support the person in the middle if you aren't understanding everyone around them and the type of experience that they're having."
In working with people who...2024-08-2832 min
The Beagle Has Landed PodcastBrianne Kirkpatrick WilliamsIf you survey genetic counselors about direct-to-consumer genetic testing (and we did!) you will find that most of them think that DTC customers should receive genetic counseling. At the same time, most of them say that they wouldn’t feel comfortable doing the counseling… In 2016, Brianne Kirkpatrick Williams set up Watershed DNA for just this purpose. In this interview, Brianne discusses the challenges and satisfactions of entrepreneurship and being a pioneer in the DTC genetic testing era.2018-10-2300 min