Genetic Counselling

Genetic Counselling is available for individuals and families to provide current information about hereditary conditions that may affect their future children.

The aims of the genetic counselling service are to:

Provide families with up-to-date genetic information about congenital or inherited health problems within their family.
Provide supportive counselling to assist families and individuals to understand and adjust to a genetic diagnosis.
Advise about the role of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
Identify specialised genetic tests that may help with the management of pregnancy.

Read more about the genetic counselling service here.

Nicole Scoble-Williams

Genetic Counsellor & Quality Compliance and Risk Management Manager

Nicole Scoble-Williams is a Genetic Counsellor with a Masters in Science from Griffith University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.

As both a genetic counsellor and a professional counsellor, Nicole has extensive experience providing grief and loss counselling support to families enduring the experience of pregnancy loss due to miscarriage, neonatal death, or termination of pregnancy following positive prenatal diagnosis results. She has been closely associated with the Bonnie Babes Foundation as well as Support After Fetal Diagnosis of Abnormality (SAFDA) groups in South Australia, Queensland and now Sydney.

Nicole’s counselling experience adds a unique dimension to her genetic counselling style within the prenatal and IVF setting. She empowers patients through access to the necessary information, resources and supportive networks to make informed decisions regarding genetic conditions and/or birth defects.

Nicole has previous IT industry experience and several years of process improvement, business excellence and quality management roles, as well as formal qualifications as an ISO internal auditor. Nicole also leads IVFAustralia’s Quality Compliance and Risk Management efforts.

Nicole is registered with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and the Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA).

Nicole is available for genetic counselling consultations at IVFAustralia in the City.