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Bella Demo is a practicum student at NECOA. She completed her BS in psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. She worked as a research coordinator in the Mood Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and as a research assistant at McLean Hospital. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Psychology at William James College.She values empathy and openness in her work with clients and aims to bring an accepting, strengths-based perspective to the therapeutic space