@knaidlach
There is a big difference between theory and practice.
The 12 steps as laid out in print and as applied in these meetings vary by the person running the meeting. They are all volunteers with addictive personalities.
Most of these Rabonim and frum therapists (unnamed by you) have never attended such a meeting as they are not open to the general public.
My initial involvement in court was because a client came to me about his 18 year old grandson who got a DUI ticket and was sentenced to 9 moths of meetings. The grandson kept coming home with these saint/prayer cards and saying the leader kept trying to convert him. Since they have the higher being premise it is not the place of a civil US court to order attendance.
In Brooklyn there may be frum 12 step meetings, but in most of America there are not.