Mieke Ryan
Head of Fostering
Mieke has been working with children in care and their foster carers since 2003. Throughout her working career her focus has been on promoting positive placements for the children she works with, through supporting foster carers, enabling and empowering them to care for and nurture the vulnerable children placed with them.
In supporting and working closely with foster carers and fostering teams, Mieke has developed placement plans and therapeutic approaches to promote attachment, resilience and emotional support for children and their carers.
Mieke holds a master’s degree in Social Work from TCD, the National Qualification in Social Work and a master’s degree in Child Art Psychotherapy from UCD. She is fully Garda Vetted, a member of the IASW and registered with CORU. Mieke has engaged in additional training in the areas of attachment, infant mental health, developmental trauma, mentalisation and reflective parenting for foster carers.
Mieke has worked as a Guardian ad Litem since September 2013 and during this time has been appointed nationwide in both the District and High Court.
Meet the team
Mieke has been working with children in care and their foster carers since 2003. Throughout her working career her
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Eugene, a professionally qualified social worker, for over 30 years. With experience working both in the public
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Eithne and her family have been foster carers for over 20 years and she brings a great insight into the recruitment of foster carers to her work
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Nikki like all our Social Work team is CORU registered. She has been working as a social worker with children, their families
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Denise has been working within the private foster care sector as an Administrator since 2014. During this time, she
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Laura works as an administrator in Origins foster care. She joined the agency in December 2020. Prior to her role as fostering
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Clare joined the Origins foster care team in June 2021, having very recently returned from living in the UK
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Alexandre was born in Brazil and moved to Ireland to broaden his educational and work experience. With a degree in
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Ciara graduated with an honour’s degree in Social Work from Trinity College Dublin and has a National Qualification
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Leigh-Ann joined Origins Foster Care in 2018, bringing with her over 3 years of experience as a fostering administrator.
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Stephanie has joined Origins Foster Care as an Administrator. She joined the agency in June 2023.
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Victoria holds an Honours Degree in Social Care and a Masters in Social Work from Trinity College
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Leah holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from Trinity College and a Diploma in Trauma Informed Practice from University College Cork .
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