I'll respond with one more idea, and then leave it to the experts in your field of psychotherapy. I agree that the term "spiritual growth" is little more than the lastest trend in popular culture. And, organized religion, for the most part, has been very punitive toward human sexuality. There is great danger in allowing that to run loose in your discipline. Therefore, "spiritual growth" used as a term within the discipline of therapy is at best little better than a "flavor of the month" concept, and whose ideas are already covered by psychology in much more effective ways. At it worse, it will be used to shame and denegrate otherwise healthy people who don't fit within what is considered healthy, normal and moral, but that even happens within traditional models of psychotherapy. On the other hand, I can't prove it to you over the Internet, someone else more skillful than myself might be able to, but there is such a thing as spiritual energy. I feel it, and its transformative power. I can use it. I can offer examples from my personal experience. That's the best that I can do here.
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