Experience

EDUCATION

 

Contemporary Freudian Society

The Psychoanalytic Training Institute, New York, NY

Psychoanalytic Training 2025 

 

Contemporary Freudian Society

The Psychoanalytic Training Institute, New York, NY 

Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 2018

 

New York University

Silver School of Social Work, New York, NY

Master of Social Work 2014

Concentration: Community-Based Mental Health

 

The Juilliard School, New York, NY 

Bachelor of Music 1995

Master of Music 1997

Doctor of Musical Arts 2002

 

 

MENTAL HEALTH EXPERIENCE

 

Private Practice,  New York, NY

Psychotherapist/Psychoanalyst 2018 – present 

  • Providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

 

Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health, New York, NY

Staff Therapist 2014-2019

  • Provided psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients ages 20-50

 

Metropolitan Hospital Center ACT Team, New York, NY 

Social Worker 2015-2019

  • Conducted direct client care in the community for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness

 

The Bridge ACT Team, Bronx, NY

Social Worker 2014-2015

  • Conducted direct client care in the community for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness
  • Facilitated weekly therapy group 

 

Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health, New York, NY

Social Work Intern 2013 – 2014

  • Conducted intake interviews and diagnostic assessments
  • Provided psychodynamic psychotherapy for clients ages 20-45

 

Metropolitan Hospital Center ACT Team, New York, NY 

Social Work Intern 2012-2013

  • Conducted direct client care in the community through interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration
  • Wrote Metropolitan Hospital Center ACT Intern Handbook

 

PUBLICATIONS

Dufallo, C. (2014). Something old & something new. Strings, 28(8), 65.

Dufallo, C. (2013). Daniel Hope sets his sights on a starry starry night. Strings, 27(12), 106.

Dufallo, C. (2011). Ana Milosavjevic at Le Poisson Rouge. New Music Connoisseur, 19(1), 7.

Dufallo, C. (2007). The aesthetic of impermanence: A performer’s perspective of Four Systems and Tracer. Contemporary Music Review, 26(3/4), 429-436.

Dufallo, C. (2002). The indeterminate violin: A pedagogical approach to indeterminacy in the violin repertoire (Doctoral document). The Juilliard School, New York.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Psychoanalytic Association 2024 – Present

International Psychoanalytic Association 2024 – Present

Contemporary Freudian Society 2018 – Present

National Association of Social Workers 2012 – Present

 

TEACHING

Faculty of Contemporary Freudian Society Psychotherapy Training Program 2023-present

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer for The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2024-present

Chair of the Scientific Program Committee at Contemporary Freudian Society 2025-present

Co-chair of the Psychotherapy Training Program at Contemporary Freudian Society 2023-present

 

 

MUSIC EXPERIENCE

 

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York, NY

  • Associate Musician 2002-2019

ETHEL Quartet, New York, NY 

  • Violinist, 2005-2012

Flux Quartet, New York, NY 

  • Violinist, 1995-2001