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https://www.rootandreturnwellness.com/, http://bio.site/rachelforbeslcsw

Rachel Forbes, LCSW, New Haven, CT (2026)

02/25/2026

✨Introducing Some of Our People (Our growing team) here at Root & Return!✨

To learn more about each clinician and the heart they bring to this work, we invite you to visit our website: https://www.rootandreturnwellness.com/our-people

Founder and Therapist: Rachel Forbes, LCSW
From Rachel: “I founded Root & Return Wellness upon the belief that we are all human – meaning that it is natural to feel a multitude of emotions that are both unique to the individual, as well as interconnected with our relationships with others.” (Accepts insurance & currently not accepting new clients)

Therapist: Catherine Banson, LMSW
From Catherine: “No matter where you are or what you are bringing, I will create space for you to explore challenges at your own pace and begin to find your own solutions. When you are ready and willing, I can share strategies that help you stay present with what is and move toward what you want.” (Accepts insurance & currently has a waitlist)

02/25/2026

Our Offerings here at Root & Return🫶:
Rooted in Healing, Returning to Connection

INTEGRATIVE THERAPY & SOULFUL HEALING – Our therapists offer depth-oriented, relational care that blends evidence-based and holistic practices to support healing across mind, body, and spirit. We help individuals, couples, and families move through anxiety, depression, complex trauma, and life transitions while cultivating a deeper sense of clarity, presence, and self-leadership.

ADOPTION COMMUNITY & SEEKING BELONGING –
This work inspired the founding of Root & Return Wellness. We provide therapy and guidance for adoptees, adoptive parents, and families exploring the many layers of identity, lineage, loss, and belonging. Led by Rachel Forbes, an adoptee herself, this space offers lived experience, empathy, and compassionate support, along with tools to explore your story with safety and depth.

CONSULTATION & TRAININGS – Through clinical consultation, training, and mentorship, Rachel creates reflective spaces for therapists to explore adoption-competent, trauma-informed, and soul-centered ways of working. These offerings help clinicians strengthen confidence, integrity, and connection - both in their work and within themselves.

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.

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

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!

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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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” 🫶

12/31/2025

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

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! 🫂

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 💖

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.♥️

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