Geez, how many weeks would you do Step 1 and how many days Step 2? It sounds like a lot of time spent at the hospital and perhaps would be helpful if you need something intensive and can afford to take the time off from work, school, or whatever you would miss. A lot of times the groups at hospitals are skills-based, so this might be something quite different from your individual therapy (depending on what it is like). If you can get with people at the hospital who are not doing a recovery program and who aren't court ordered, maybe it would be helpful. I help run groups at a hospital, and we have an intensive outpatient program. What I don't like about our program is that the outpatient people come into the hospital and do groups together with the inpatients. This isn't always a good mix, as the inpatient population is more acute, there is more acting out and violence, etc. So I think an important question to ask the hospital would be if you will be with inpatients for the group.

Even if you can see your individual T more than once a week, it might not provide the same benefit as seeing a different person or being in a group. You already know what you can get from your T. Would getting 2 hours of this a week instead of 1 really change things much? I think it can be helpful to get a different perspective and approach from a different provider. You might learn things you would never learn from your T. The good thing is that you wouldn't have to quit individual therapy but could stay with your T through this.

Good luck.