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Genetic Counselor Awareness Day: As a genetic counselor, there can be many different roles or specialties . Some Counselors go into research, learning about diseases and how people cope with them, some educate patients on specific lifestyle areas like self- care and nutrition while others fill a more supportive role of helping patients understand their genetic risks, testing options and stress management.
Genetic Counselor Awareness Day: We are extremely grateful that at the First Annual Living LFS Family Camp, we had several Genetic Counselors join us to help our LFS families with topics such as an Intro to LFS and Genetics, Coping with LFS, Parenting with LFS, and Nutrition and Self Care.
Genetic Counselors are part Counselor, part Geneticist and all awesome. They can help you understand tricky genetics, decide on lifestyle and testing choices that are right for you and your family and they can help you live your best life with LFS, or any other genetic condition.
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