Rachel Forbes, LCSW

04/15/2026

RESONANCE is perhaps the most profound energy brought to a therapeutic space, as it embodies the felt sense that “I am not alone, and I am truly understood by another person.” ♥️

04/10/2026

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04/08/2026

Shoutout to those who can just “be with.” You are a gift. 💝

04/05/2026

If you’ve been looking for a non-pathologizing, deeply human, and integrative therapist who ALSO accepts insurance - please reach out. 🫶 We accept Husky/Medicaid, Aetna, Cigna, and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield

Inquire on our website: https://www.rootandreturnwellness.com/get-started
or email me directly: info@rootandreturnwellness.com

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04/01/2026

Someone new has joined our collective of soulful therapists 🫶✨ We excitedly welcomed Laura Jarvis, LMSW to Root & Return Wellness ✨

Laura offers holistic, integrative, nervous-system informed care, with a number of areas of experience. Sh e shares, “change, healing, and growth can be hard, yet it can be freeing— providing both relief and possibility.”

More info about her and her specialties can be found on our website: rootandreturnwellness.com/our-therapists

She is currently accepting new clients and takes most major insurances 🫶 Please inquire on our website to connect with her!

04/01/2026

✨ Motherhood & Cultural Reconnection as a Korean Transracial Adoptee ✨

“For an adoptee, with little to no exposure to Korean community growing up, attempting to pass Korean culture onto my children felt like a foreigner scanning every page in the translator’s dictionary to form a simple sentence, hoping someone might take pity on her foreignness…”

“…grieving the loss of the life I could have had, one in which the traditions, the practices, the nuances, the turns of phrases, my ancestors’ stories, the history, were all naturally ingrained in my day-to-day being. There is grief for loss of connection, that felt severance with no simple or clear roadmap for return. I’ve felt as if I was flailing around, sometimes so aimlessly, guided by pure faith that my hands would land somewhere tangible and vaguely recognizable.”

“Inside the longing lives a tear-welling treasuring, an ancestral appreciation, another breadcrumb leading home…”

The full blog post can be found on my website under the Resources page: rootandreturnwellness.com/resources 🫶

03/25/2026

🌱 WHY “ROOT & RETURN?” 🌱

Root:

My favorite therapist once said to me that my blood ancestors are like my roots to this earth (in the context of having lost connection to them as an adoptee, feeling a severance and an alone-ness). In this word, we remember our inherent connectedness to this earth and to our lineage. We ground to feel both our steadiness and connectedness.

Return:

🌱 Remembering and resourcing from the wisdom and lovability that inherently lives within us.
🌱 Reconnecting with the gifts from our ancestors and with spirit.
🌱Returning the ancestral burdens that never belonged to us
🌱 RECLAIMING OUR PLAY, JOY, AND CREATIVITY

03/25/2026

Common Internal Themes and Experiences Among Adoptees from an Adoptee & Therapist who works with Adoptees 🫶

GRIEF
PERFECTIONISM
CHALLENGES WITH INTIMACY & RELATIONSHIPS
INTERNALIZED RACISM
LACK OF FELT BELONGING
PRECIOUS & PAINFUL PARENTING
FELT WORTHLESSNESS
PEOPLE PLEASING
INVISIBLE PAIN
FELT ALONE-NESS

03/19/2026

Am I creating a healthy boundary or am I actually avoiding my own inner work and disguising it as creating a healthy boundary?

When we take a U-turn to look inward first, we then move past the layers of self-protection and meet ourselves honestly.

When we can meet ourselves honestly, we can meet others honestly. That depth of honesty nurtures authentic and meaningful connection.

03/11/2026

✨ A Small Virtual Group for Parents of Trans and Nonbinary kids ✨ Facilitated by Catherine Khang Banson, LMSW, this five-part series invites parents to gather in community while exploring meditative and somatic practices rooted in the Buddha’s teachings of lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

🌱TO REGISTER: email 
catherine@rootandreturnwellness.com
🌱Sundays | 5–6:30 PM ET
🌱April 19, April 26, May 3, May 10, May 17
🌱Zoom | Limited to 12 participants
🌱Donation-based (50% donated to The Trevor Project)

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! 🫂