Rachel Forbes, LCSW

Rachel Forbes, LCSW Healing here is collaborative, relational, and deeply human. https://www.rootandreturnwellness.com

Our therapists blend evidence-based and holistic practices that honor the whole person - mind, body, and spirit.

Root & Return Wellness is growing, and we are looking for clinicians across Connecticut who feel called to offer therapy...
02/18/2026

Root & Return Wellness is growing, and we are looking for clinicians across Connecticut who feel called to offer therapy that is relational, integrative, person-centered, and grounded in presence.
We believe that how we care for our clients begins with how we care for our team. If you are seeking a practice culture that values flexibility, authenticity, honoring humanity, and balance, we would love to connect with you.



✨🎉 EXCITING NEWS!!! 🎉✨INTRODUCING… the project I’ve been working on over the last several months –  the expansion and re...
02/18/2026

✨🎉 EXCITING NEWS!!! 🎉✨
INTRODUCING… the project I’ve been working on over the last several months –  the expansion and renaming of my practice:
✨✨ ROOT & RETURN WELLNESS ✨✨

We are a therapy and healing collective devoted to the inner work of reconnecting with self, with community, and with our deeper knowing. We blend evidence-based and holistic practices that honor the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. Especially during these volatile and catalytic times, let’s continue to create spaces of community, empowerment, and recognition of trauma and social justice informed care. And yes, it feels like a wild time to introduce exciting news - though, we are entering the year of the Fire Horse… so let’s contribute to what’s ALIGNED & POSSIBLE.🔥🐎

Please follow us ALSO (I’ll still be here too!) for soul-centered content & updates about openings, cohorts, and resources!! 🫶

Our website is in my bio:
https://www.rootandreturnwellness.com



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02/18/2026

✨🎉 EXCITING NEWS!!! 🎉✨
INTRODUCING… the project I’ve been working on over the last several months –  the expansion and renaming of my practice:
✨✨ ROOT & RETURN WELLNESS ✨✨

We are a therapy and healing collective devoted to the inner work of reconnecting with self, with community, and with our deeper knowing. We blend evidence-based and holistic practices that honor the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. Especially during these volatile and catalytic times, let’s continue to create spaces of community, empowerment, and recognition of trauma and social justice informed care. And yes, it feels like a wild time to introduce exciting news - though, we are entering the year of the Fire Horse… so let’s contribute to what’s ALIGNED & POSSIBLE.🔥🐎

Please follow us ALSO (I’ll still be here too!) for soul-centered content & updates about openings, cohorts, and resources!! 🫶

Our website is in my bio:
https://www.rootandreturnwellness.com



HAPPY SEOLLAL ❤️‍🔥 Happy Lunar New Year ❤️‍🔥 🐎 feat. Instagram vs. Real Life 🤪 Leaving behind old ways that no longer su...
02/17/2026

HAPPY SEOLLAL ❤️‍🔥 Happy Lunar New Year ❤️‍🔥 🐎 feat. Instagram vs. Real Life 🤪 Leaving behind old ways that no longer sustain us, let’s step into this year of the fire horse with momentum, creativity, courage, and authenticity!

I am grateful for the aliveness of community, the resonant inspiration, the deep honesty, and the reverberating courage ...
02/03/2026

I am grateful for the aliveness of community, the resonant inspiration, the deep honesty, and the reverberating courage and action in this moment. I have felt horrified, terrified, desperate, enraged, grief stricken, disgusted – and with communal support – I’ve also felt morally courageous.

I was grappling with: how can I, as the therapist who typically leads from compassion and curiosity, speak to that which actually needs much more - that which needs assertive, clarifying and organized moral courage? With deeper reflection, my discovery was that we can be context conscious — and also that actually, compassion is at the heart of moral courage. I talked more about it in a previous post.

But here, I just want to name what is: this is fascist behavior, this is both traumatizing and re-traumatizing for many, and we need moral courage now.



Feat: .healingvibe


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I write this to my fellow therapists and those in healing spaces who may have grappled with this as I have: how we show ...
02/01/2026

I write this to my fellow therapists and those in healing spaces who may have grappled with this as I have: how we show up in therapy versus how we show up in other areas of our life - while both led with love - can be different, and that can be appropriate, context conscious, and healthy.

& shoutout to my brilliant friend, who says, “I am A therapist, not YOUR therapist” 🫶

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year to One & All 🤍✨
12/31/2025

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year to One & All 🤍✨

First time doing a professional photoshoot (& some were for funzies!) 🥰💖 While I was feeling self-conscious, but open, C...
11/21/2025

First time doing a professional photoshoot (& some were for funzies!) 🥰💖 While I was feeling self-conscious, but open, Cate made me feel so comfortable with her warmth, humor, and honesty. If you are in CT and looking for professional shots, I couldn’t recommend her more!!! Huge shoutout to you, Cate, thank you!! 🫶

Perhaps in the spirit of NAAM, here’s to leaning into our vulnerability to find our authenticity, community & empowerment! 🫂


The shock when things change.The freeze when emotions come.The shame that keeps you quiet…It doesn’t have to stay this w...
06/23/2025

The shock when things change.
The freeze when emotions come.
The shame that keeps you quiet…
It doesn’t have to stay this way.

Today I wanted to share a special opportunity to heal through profound online courses created by my friend .y.t , with which I am honored to be an affiliate. ♥️ Marina is a beautiful gatherer, and I was drawn to her work and the communities she creates, as she invites us to go deeper, with greater compassion, and brave honesty. I had also joined her beautiful app, SomaShare, a couple of years ago!

The Journey is a trauma-informed somatic healing bundle for sensitive humans designed to support nervous system healing, emotional regulation, and the embodiment of your most authentic self.

The courses include limited-time bonuses to deepen your experience:
🌱1-month free access to Marina’s HeartSpace somatic membership (July 8-August 8)
🌱A private group space for support & sharing
🌱A 90-min live call with Marina on August 8
🌱A 21-day guided somatic journal
🌱The Trigger Toolkit - a collection of regulating tools

This is a rare chance to be held in a truly nourishing container for healing ~ the link is in my bio 💖

Motherhood:When we reckon with what’s come before us to meet what’s to come with more honesty, clarity, and love. We are...
05/11/2025

Motherhood:
When we reckon with what’s come before us
to meet what’s to come
with more honesty, clarity, and love.

We are given an opportunity to
relieve the ancestral burdens
and to invite in the ancestral gifts.

May this Mother’s Day
honor what has come before you,
what is now, and what is to come.
May you be held with compassion and grace
through it all.♥️

Welcoming nuance, possibility, perspective, and evolution, here are a few coexisting truths in relationships 💋 ...
04/22/2025

Welcoming nuance, possibility, perspective, and evolution, here are a few coexisting truths in relationships 💋

We can hold both, as transracial, transnational, transcultural adoptees: the very lived reality that we were raised in o...
03/25/2025

We can hold both, as transracial, transnational, transcultural adoptees: the very lived reality that we were raised in one culture and environment AND reach for the one we lost. ♥️

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