The Healing Alliance℠ works best for people who are caring and sensitive, who like to listen in a focused way to other people, and who feel prepared to open up about personal issues. Because our approach involves sharing responsibility for playing the role of ally -- and thus for being the voice of hope and courage during the other person’s turn to speak and heal -- participants need to be able to feel hopeful and energetic a substantial portion of the time, even if they have other times of deep discouragement or emotional pain.