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Murray Therapy is a progressive leader providing child-centered occupational therapy services for children birth through 12 years.
We believe that every child should have the self-confidence, strength and skills they need to live their fullest life. And we provide the hope to make that happen. By listening carefully and working tirelessly with parents, teachers, caregivers and their children, we empower positive change for today and tomorrow.
Our therapists are carefully selected to bring their own strengths to the practice, ensuring a common family-supported approach and a range of complementary teachings. We invite you to read more about the Murray Therapy team below.
Our Therapy Staff
Rebecca Griffith
Originally from Fort Collins, Rebecca graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy in 2025. She quickly fell in love with working in pediatrics and became passionate about helping children build skills through play, movement, and sensory-based activities in ways that are both fun and meaningful. Rebecca has a special interest in supporting sensory processing and motor development while taking an individualized and family-centered approach.
Outside of work, Rebecca enjoys reading, doing puzzles, and spending time outdoors.
Ellery Ruben
Dr. Ellery (rhymes with celery) Ruben has a life-long personal and professional interest in neural integration difficulties and their effects on learning, behavior, and emotional regulation. Having graduated from Colorado State University with a doctorate in Occupational Therapy in 2025, she also has a Master of Arts in Cognitive Science from Columbia University. In all of her jobs, Ellery has worked with children (and adults) with learning and behavioral disabilities. Having also had significant learning and visual processing issues as a child, she really relates to the difficulties her clients encounter daily.
Ellery has a passion for working with children to build the skills they need to be successful in their everyday lives. Utilizing a combination of movement, play, and sensory-based activities, she helps support motor and cognitive development, as well as sensory processing, and emotional regulation. She works closely with each child and their family to create a treatment plan that is tailored to their specific needs.
Originally from Chicago, Ellery is in love with Colorado, is obsessed with dogs, and loves to hike and do Pilates.
Johanna Schmitz
Johanna is a native Midwesterner who moved to Colorado for graduate school and fell so in love with the place that she could not imagine herself anywhere else. She graduated from Colorado State University with a Masters in Occupational Therapy in 2021 and has worked in pediatrics ever since.
Johanna is passionate about family-centered care and empowering families with tools to better support their kiddos to succeed and thrive. She understands the importance of play as an important way for children to learn and understand their environment. Johanna believes that the nervous system greatly impacts how we move in the world and seeks to create a safe space for all of her clients. She has experience in many areas of need including feeding, sensory processing, pelvic floor therapy, self-regulation, visual processing, and neurodiversity affirming care.
Johanna recently became a mother to a little girl and is enjoying seeing the world through her eyes. In her free time, Johanna enjoys reading, hiking, cooking new foods, playing board games, spending time with her family, and challenging herself to learn new skills.
John Murray
John is a proud graduate of Colorado State University (1982), with specialty training in Sensory Processing Disorders and a certificate in Pediatric Neuro-Developmental Treatment. He and his wife Michelle (also an OT) opened Murray Therapy in Fort Collins in 2004.
John’s therapy approach has evolved over the years through hands-on experiences as well as the influences he has integrated from his therapy kids and their parents. John loves helping kids discover and organize their sensory systems and watching the wonder that unfolds.
John and Michelle are the grateful parents of 3 adult sons. John likes to be with family and friends preferably outside hiking, biking, running. He is a die-hard Philadelphia Eagles and Phillies Fan, a commitment that comes with considerable emotional stress.
Why Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapy looks at every activity and interaction an individual has on a daily basis, and finds ways to make it all flow together more smoothly.
Think about every activity you do every day, all the interactions you have with others, and all the steps in between. That is what occupational therapists do. We consider each individual’s physical and mental abilities, behaviors, and performance of activities that happen each day and how we can work together to improve upon any area that may be difficult. When that individual has a diagnosis or a difficulty with a task or behavior, we come up with new ways to approach it and improve their quality of life.
As occupational therapists in the pediatric world, it is our duty to guide children and their families to better understand their sensory environment and how to develop strategies to make those interactions more enjoyable. We help make play, getting dressed, writing, social skills, and processing emotions better for the child.
The importance of occupational therapy is not only with the child but with their family unit. We focus on the child’s roles as a student, sibling, friend, and child. Their routines at home, school, and during playtime. Most importantly their behaviors and interactions with their family and environments. In addition, we look at the caregiver’s roles, routines, and interactions with their child or children.
We are holistic, focusing on the mind, body, and spirit and consider the sensory needs of every child to better their interactions in life.