Child and Family Services

Safer Children, Stronger Families, Healthier Communities
Home/Child and Family Services

Child and Family Services at Bessborough provide integrated community and residential services offering family support, social work and clinical psychology input to parents and children. Our ‘family preservation’ ethos aims to help parents and children remain safely together where possible and to reduce the volume of children removed into state care while promoting lifelong positive outcomes.

Parent and
Infant unit

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The Lime Tree Project

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Consultancy and Assessment

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Parenting Groups

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Marie O’Riordan

Child and Family Services Manager

moriordan@bessborough.ie
Jonathan Horgan

Child and Family Services Manager

jhorgan@bessborough.ie
Dr Alasdair Ross

Clinical Psychologist

alasdair.ross@bessborough.ie
Catherine Maguire

Senior Clinical Psychologist / Infant Mental Health Specialist

catherine.maguire@bessborough.ie
Isobel De Búrca

Assistant Psychologist

Elaine Spillane

Family Development Practitioner

Obi Ibebugwu

Family Development Practitioner

Susan MacConaill

Family Development Practitioner

Pamela Massey

Family Development Practitioner

Sheila Flanagan

Family Development Practitioner

Sean Kelleher

Family Development Practitioner

Ellen Bowen

Family Development Practitioner

Nicole O’Connor

Family Development Practitioner

Lena McCarthy

Family Development Practitioner

Family Development Assistant

Margo Ahern
Niamh Garde

Family Development Practitioner

Parent & Infant Unit Aftercare Worker

Debbie O’Shea

Baby Massage Therapist

Caoilfhionn O’Donovan

Family Development Practitioner