Originally Posted by
daredevil 
what about reconciling AVRT with _online_ (peer) support?
As has been pointed out, attempting to reconcile something that goes completely against it's very tenets simply isn't possible by definition.
Your questions are somewhat akin to asking a vegetarian how to reconcile eating meat. Certainly an individual could choose to follow a mostly vegetarian lifestyle to improve/change their health, but also eat lean meat once a month. That is a personal choice, and it may very well help them achieve their health goals - but that person could not then call themselves a vegetarian by the strict sense of the definition.
You ( or anyone ) can certainly choose to use parts of AVRT and also go to LifeRing meetings for example. And it could result in you never drinking another drop of alcohol in your life. And if it did work, whether or not your actions could be reconciled by AVRT's strictest definition really doesn't matter to you, does it?