Nakita is a HPCSA registered genetic counsellor, graduating from UCT with her MSc (Med) in Genetic Counselling in 2011. She is appointed as a senior genetic counsellor at Groote Schuur Hospital where she provides clinical genetic counselling services in the state sector, working in prenatal, paediatric and adult genetics. She is an honourary lecturer with the University of Cape Town (UCT) and is actively involved with the MSc in Genetic Counselling programme, playing a key leadership role in the clinical service delivery, clinical training and lecturing of genetic counselling students and interns, clinical supervision as well as research supervision. She is a collaborator on projects involved in looking at the genetic causes of cardiomyopathies in South Africa (IMHOTEP) and Cystic Fibrosis. She is the outgoing chair of the GCSA (Genetic Counsellors South Africa) and the Division of Human Genetics (UCT) transformation committee. She is a proud member of Southern African Society for Human Genetics (SASHG) and African Society of Human Genetics (AFSHG), through which the subgroup African Genetic Counselling Association (AGCA) started and she is the current chair.

Laing briefed National Press Foundation fellows in November 2025: Rare Disease Families Need Screening, Genetic Counseling, Advocates Say. Check out the Rare Disease Reporting Guide.