Katie Murphy Email and Phone Number

Care for and attend to clients/children of disabilities. Assist client with behavior challenges and the use of synchronization of motor skills. Aid and support client with aggressive behavior and emphasize positive reinforcement and outcomes to distract from negative expression. Care and assist in complex behavioral health challenges and communicate with community support networks. Utilize my expertise in behavioral assessments along with interventions while consulting with colleagues when needed to complement therapy. Challenges in medical complications include seizures for which I administer injections if necessary.

Work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing services to adults with mental illness. Collaborate with psychiatrists, nurses, chemical dependency specialists, therapists and other case managers. My responsibility as part of this team is to advocate and provide intensive services in clients’ homes and in the community to help prevent hospitalization. I also assist with the community integration program that includes preparing clients to have a job, friends, and find safe, affordable housing. As a case manager and vocational specialist, I possess specific skills and training to assist clients to develop and achieve their goals. I also coordinate and provide client’s services in areas of mental health, housing, employment, and other basic needs. This includes the necessary paperwork to comply with treatment and funding needs. I work cooperatively with other service providers and coworkers including maintaining progress reports and other documentation as required.

Work with and provide program support to the Assertive Community Treatment team. As a member of this team, I attend meeting with providers. I am responsible for organizing, coordinating and monitoring all nonclinical operations of ACT under the direction of the team leader; duties included but not limited to: triaging calls, coordinating communications between the team and clients, deescalating situations with clients who have increases of symptomatology, assisting clients, their families and agencies to receive answers to various questions asked by others within the team.

While working in retail, I was able to uncover what client's needs were, present the proper solution and provide a pleasant experience while building loyal clientele so they would feel welcome in coming back. This experience has given me the ability to work with people one on one and gain a better understanding on how to communicate to figure out their needs, which in turn as helped me increase my people skills. Retail can be a challenge with goals and pressures and so I was able to learn to better focus and work hard to achieve the goals set by the company throughout the day.

I was hired at Fairview's Institute for Athletic Medicine as a receptionist and as an assistant to help keep equipment in the therapy rooms clean and organized. While doing this I was able to also expand my experience to include aiding the therapist when needed, helping clients with their therapy and by gaining a better understanding of how important proper therapy can be be for a client.