Perhaps. She is substituting one form of external validation for another - and it won't solve her problem: why she craves the external validation in the first place.
Thank you for making my point more succinctly than I did!
I think you're missing something here: possibly because of a foreshortened view of God as some kind of therapeutic construct; and possibly because of a truncated view of human nature.
I haven't any idea of what you think human life is for --- perhaps you will explain at some point --- but I am convinced that the purpose of human life is love: that is to say, giving and receiving love is the "point," the telos, the ultimate fulfillment of human existence. Everything else involving human aspiration and effort -- eating and drinking and moving and thinking, economic productivity, art and culture, the expansion of scientific knowledge, foreign and military policy, all of it --- is meaningful inasmuch as it moves us somehow on the course of love.
In this light, a person like Dawn Eden who comes through a period of travail in her life, and finally turns toward a relationship with God, is progressing towards the very purpose for which she exists (and the purpose for which the physical Universe exists.) This is not a therapeutic crutch. This is approaching the apex of existence, the mysterium tremendum.