"How much I appreciate Joe has a lot to do with the changes I have seen in myself, as a direct result of working with him for the last three years. Upon entering a treatment program at Mesa Springs in Fort Worth, I was blessed to meet Joe and become a patient of his. Joe showed me recovery was possible, but also a challenge unlike you have ever experienced. I continue my battle with depression, addiction, and life's challenges with Joe after he opened his private practice. I have never met someone like Joe, and if you are reading this I urge you to meet him and see what I see....It's never too late."
--- S.P., Mansfield
--- S.P., Mansfield
"Addiction is a killer for the individual as well as the family. Joe has the life experience and the professional experience to dig deep and diagnose the causes for addiction and get you on the right path to making the life changes that lead to healing. Rigorous honesty is where this starts. Joe has a deeply felt and sincere interest in his patients and I know that I am a different man/father and partner today because of my rigorously honest WORK with Joe."
--- D. H., TCU area
--- D. H., TCU area
"Joe not only helped give my wife and I the tools to save our marriage but he helped us understand the emotional obstacles that were keeping us from using them correctly. Joe is much different than any psychotherapist I have seen in the past because I could actually feel his compassion and empathy radiating from his heart and soul. I got the instinctive sense that he was not trying to help me because it was his "job" but only because he had been in a dark emotional realm himself at one point in his life and he truly wanted the pain and turmoil to cause me no more suffering. In many ways Joe helped save more than my marriage, he helped save me from myself and led me to a place where I could redeem a peaceful soul filled with freedom to feel my emotions without having to act on them due to discomfort. I can never pay Joe back for what he did I can only show him. I know he would never want anything more than that."
---L. E., Haslet
---L. E., Haslet
"Two years ago I became severely depressed and was admitted to a behavioral health hospital. I had been compulsively spending my entire adult life and I could no longer deal with my debilitating shame. After being evaluated, I landed in a group for addicts. I couldn’t understand why that group and not the group for depression, but there I was and at the age of 58, after years of going to doctors for help and being misdiagnosed, I finally had an answer. I am an addict and Joe Koos is an addiction therapist, a highly skilled, highly experienced therapist. I was in Joe’s group for two months and in that time, he walked our entire group, a group with many types of addiction, through the nature of addiction. We went back to the painful experiences we had as children and learned that those of us with “addictive” brains, assuage our childhood pain through addiction. He helped us understand where the pain started and how that pain manifested. He educated us on the emotional cause of addiction, and just as importantly, on the science of why our brains turn to addiction as a way to cope. Joe gave me the gift of understanding who and why I am and he gave me the tools to move forward into a healthy life. If you are suffering with any type of addiction, Joe can and will give you back your life. He is, without a doubt, a Hall-of- Famer therapist."
---J. F., Stephenville
---J. F., Stephenville
"We sincerely do not know where we'd be today without the guidance of Joe and the intense work he provided for our young adult son. Joe believed in him and gave him the tools he needed to dig deep, do the difficult, emotional work, to begin to believe in himself again and start the healing process. As parents, we felt helpless, but never hopeless, as we put together an incredibly strong support system to lead our shattered family from its very darkest days. With Joe's unwavering professionalism, he guided us with much experience, knowledge, expectation and trust back to lighter brighter days. It was sometimes with baby steps, often big steps, yet always, always moving forward. It is safe to say our son not only survived, but has thrived with Joe's constant commitment to him and our family. It has been comforting to know we can always call on him if needed. We are so thankful, grateful and blessed by the work of Joe Koos!! What a gift!!!"
---Name and initials withheld at the author's request, Keller
---Name and initials withheld at the author's request, Keller