For therapists and recovery professionals
A community for yourSwiftie clients.
You know how powerful identity can be in recovery. Swift Steps® is a peer led recovery community for people navigating addiction recovery who also happen to be Swifties. For many members, that shared connection becomes the bridge to deeper reflection, accountability and belonging.
What it is
Not therapy. Not treatment. Community.
Structured peer support that complements the work you're already doing. Founded and run by a Certified Peer Specialist through the Pennsylvania Certification Board.
Explicitly nonjudgmental
Recovery is not linear and progress looks different for everyone. All pathways, including harm reduction and maintenance medications. Nobody's day count is asked.
Every day of the week
Ten plus meetings a week on Zoom, cameras optional. Tuesday's Speak Now is free and open. A companion app, Mastermind, holds them between meetings.
Clear boundaries
No diagnosis, treatment, assessment or medical advice, in any room or in the app. A crisis card opens every meeting. Facilitators escalate, they don't manage.
How referral works
One sheet. No code.
Download the referral sheet, hand it over and they come Tuesday. Nothing to request first, no forms and no account to start.
No referral code needed
The referral sheet
Know someone who needs a room?
One page to print, text or keep in your lobby. It works for a client, a patient, someone on your caseload, or anyone in your life who could use the room.
- What Swift Steps® is and who it's for
- How the room works, including the crisis protocol
- Why music, with the research cited
- Exactly how to bring someone in
Download the sheet
Print it, keep a stack in your lobby or text the PDF straight to the person you're thinking of.
Referral sheet (PDF) →Hand it over. No code needed.
Speak Now Tuesdays at 8 pm ET are free with no account. Debut Dreamer is free with no card. Everyone's first month of Out of the Woods is free. Sponsor-a-Swiftie seats cover clients who can't pay.
Get the Tuesday link →They join, you stay in the loop
Only if they want you to. No attendance is reported to anyone. If a member wants their provider to know they're coming, they say so themselves.
The standards
What every room keeps.
- A crisis resource card (988, Crisis Text Line, SAMHSA, Philadelphia crisis and treatment lines) posted at the start of every meeting and reverified quarterly.
- Facilitators escalate crises to the appropriate service. They do not manage them.
- No diagnosis, treatment, assessment or medical advice, ever.
- Affirming for LGBTQ+, BIPOC and neurodivergent members. No one is asked to justify their identity, their pathway or their pronouns.
- Not an abstinence program. Members on prescribed opiates, MAT, psychiatric medication or a harm reduction pathway are full members. We don't ask anyone to define their sobriety to us.
- What is shared in the room stays in the room. Speaker shares are recorded only with consent. The share back is never recorded.
Read the full standards and the research behind peer support →
Who's behind it
Founded by Julianne Griffin, CPS.
Julianne Griffin is a Certified Peer Specialist through the Pennsylvania Certification Board. She runs the room on Zoom and in person at select events, with members who are ready to welcome whoever you send.
How it fits
Alongside your care, or as the whole program.
Swift Steps® can be a member's primary recovery community or run alongside AA, LifeRing, SMART, Dharma, group therapy or clinical care. Daily peer-led meetings and structured programming, not treatment.
Members talk openly about politics and human rights, including access to gender-affirming care. This is an affirming space and not a neutral one. Refer with that in mind.
Stay in touch
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