12 step groups are only 12 steps,  we do not follow a linear model, we meet you where you are. They have a book to follow, we have educational content and journal work created by therapists who specialize in this field.  They focus on acting out behaviors and we focus on the deeper trauma that you might not even realize are connected to those behaviors.  They focus on the addiction, we focus on seeing the bigger picture so you can understand what’s behind the addiction. They focus on sobriety, we focus on recovery.