Awards:
- 2019 - present: Founded Compassionate Accompaniment CIC, not for profit social enterprise and was awarded funding from Firstport
- 2022 - Awarded Build It fund from Firstport to assist with expanding and continuing Compassionate Accompaniment CIC's services.
- 2022 - present: NHS funding for bereavement group, 1:1 support as well as staff self care sessions at Forth Valley and Falkirk Community hospital
- 2023 and 2024: Awarded Glasgow Wellbeing Fund for Kurdish Women's Community mental health support.
- 2024 and 2025: Awarded Glasgow Wellbeing Fund for Kurdish Women's Community mental health support.
- 2025 and 2026: Awarded Glasgow Wellbeing Fund for Kurdish Women's Community mental health support.
- 2025 and 2026: Partnered with Kurdish Community Group for Lottery funding. Awarded funding to provide emotional and mental health support for Young Minds youth group.
- 2025 December: SME Scottish Enterprise Awards for Most Compassionate Care Services Central Belt, Scotland.
- 2026 and 2027: Awarded Glasgow Wellbeing Fund for Kurdish Women's Community mental health support.
Welcome to Compassionate Accompaniment CIC (Community Interest Company), a not for profit social enterprise. We offer emotional and mental health support through somatic practices. We companion people through listening, being with them, and helping each person find ways to feel more connected to themselves and how they live.
Who is this for? Whether we are experiencing isolation, anxiety, grief, loss, exhaustion, chronic illness, cancer, dying...we are connected and can find support. Please note: We are not a counselling service.
How we can help: We offer 1:1 Compassionate Companion and group in person and online sessions for:
- chronic health conditions
- anxiety and feelings of isolation
- cancer (for patients and their families/carers)
- refugee emotional/mental health
- grief and loss
- end of life accompaniment
Compassionate Companion sessions can help you to create compassionate somatic care practices that you can use daily. More and more studies are showing that compassionate care is hugely beneficial to our well being and can help to prevent illness and alleviate chronic health conditions. Compassionate Companion sessions can help bring balance to the relationship you have with yourself as well as relationships with others in your life.
Who else do we work with? (All sessions below offered in person except SAF in US)
- Maggie’s Cancer Care Forth Valley
- NHS Forth Valley (bereavement support)
- The British Red Cross (refugee support)
- Kurdish Women’s Community Group (Glasgow)
- Breast Cancer Now (Living with Secondary BC)
- Macmillan Cancer Support (self compassion for carers)
- The Sensory Awareness Foundation (SAF), (USA)
Compassionate Companion sessions help to restore a sense of belonging and connection in ourselves and our communities.
Caring for ourselves helps us to care for the world.
