An accountable person will walk their talk. Accountability also includes an attentiveness to the other's needs and the impact of one's behavior on another. Appropriate boundaries are essential for emotional safety. In healing relationships, many boundaries need to be defined including use of touch. Presence means being able to offer your full attention to another while being grounded in yourself, holding no agenda.
Presence offers a sense of welcoming, allowing and non-judgment.
If a healer is present, the client has more space to feel their experience and learn to be present with themselves. In healing relationships is a key part of emotional safety. This may include a clear understanding between healer and client not to touch at all because physical touch is not safe, or an understanding that permission must also be asked for and granted each time touch could be incorporated into a healing process. In some cases, emotional safety and deep healing cannot take place without touch. Here is an example.