Claudya:
Some very thoughtful comments on your part.
I agree that the God-centredness which brings so much into wholesome perspective is often absent among the counsel of psychotherapists.
Conncience too is an important aspect of things, often discounted by secular thinkers (unless, that is, some people wish to guilt-manipulate citizens into participating in whatever the latest, fashionable political scheme may be). Hebrews 9.14 speaks of the cleansing of the conscience through faith in the Lord Jesus Who, by the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, at the Cross.
Interestingly, much Roman Catholic theology, steeped in Medieval Scholasticism, lends itself to process thinking, so that even professing secularists, from a Roman Catholic cultural background, will often be inveterate process thinkers. (Let's not forget that Melanchthon, too, though Lutheran, was very much into Medieval scholastic thinking!)
On the other hand, many people from a Protestant (Reformed, Baptist, etc.) background will work a very great deal with definitions and their place in clear-skies perspectives, even if they are at least overtly secularist.
To some extent this also occurs in literary criticism. Traditions of textual commentary in North America, Great Britain, etc. sometimes differ from French-led notions of 'textual explanations' (whereby the original textual meaning and definitions often get lost in a process-driven infusing of the textual critic's own ideas).
There are, of course, plenty of exceptions to these generalizations.
