This post is in response to another post to answer a question from stealth. Please excuse any typos, this pc does not have a word processor with spell check.
Therapies are as varied and as common as religions. In my own experience I have a bias for cognitive therapy, NLP, and Eriksonian hypnosis. This is not to say that the rest do not work, they do, once you find a really skilled therapist. A therapist with a personal history of cult mind control who has aquired the expertise to help others is as rare as finding a certain straw in a haystack, very few and far between.
Helping other ex JWs has been a dream of mine as some of you remember my post on "The Wall that heals". Next year I will finnally finish my self help book for ex jws. One way I envision helping Watchtower victims is doing workshops much like I have been doing here in West TExas for the last two years, worldwide.
Can you ever really fill in change or heal developmental gaps? In my experience yes, one way of looking at this is, is, if you were to bypass some years in school you would lack certain subjects that would leave you at a disadvantage in your career. Only by taking those subjects could you ever be a well rounded person to understand yourself, others and the world.
Whatever you lack or need to work through to acquire the skills, lessons, resources, etc. to be a "healthy spiritual person" will create a energetic magnetic field to attract and repel people and situations into your life. I used the JWs as the school for me to learn to love myself, I made them my surrogate father. Some other important lessons the JWs helped me with was the desperation to motivate me to educate myself to carry out my calling in life. While my JW experience was no bed of roses today I'm a better person having lived through it.
Just like Viktor Frankol found meaning in his Nazi experience I also had to do the same and in my workshops I ask others to do the same. Fine the higher purpose for their hellish life experiences.
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings observing asking, admiring, there we enter the real of art and science." A Einstein
Victor Escalante