BRAVE SEASON THERAPY
Online in MA, CT, WA, & FL
Therapy for Women Navigating Infidelity, Betrayal Trauma, High-Conflict Divorce & Love Reinvention
Courage-Based Therapy for Women
When Love Gets Complicated
When You've Had an Affair • When Your Partner Has Had an Affair • When You're Navigating a High-Conflict Divorce • When You're Ready for Midlife Reinvention
Kimberly Schildbach MEd. LMHC
You Know You Can't Keep Living Like This
Therapy for Women in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, and Florida
You are carrying a story you can't tell your friends, your family, or your coworkers.
From the outside, you look like you have it all together. You show up, you smile, and you say "I'm fine" - but you're most certainly not.
Behind closed doors, you are managing a quiet crisis. You desperately need a space where you don’t have to edit your thoughts, anticipate someone else's reaction, or face judgment. A place where you can finally stop holding your breath.
The secret of your straying (or considering straying) stays locked inside. You're afraid to share with family and friends and face the judgement and accusations. Or you've shared and now you're desperate to find your way out either by reconciling or leaving. Neither seems like the right option 100% of the time.
You are surviving a bomb dropping on your life, the affair of your partner, but you find yourself hiding full extent of the betrayal from family and friends. You hold it in because you don't want them to hate your partner forever if you choose to stay, or judge you if you want to leave.
People think divorce is just legal paperwork, but you are quietly navigating psychological warfare. You minimize how bad it really is when talking to family because you don't want to burn them out with the daily, draining updates.
The truth as I see it: Good people make incredibly complex choices when they are profoundly lonely or disconnected. Protecting everyone else while your own world is burning is a lonely, exhausting trauma. Documenting threats, walking on eggshells, and bracing every time your phone lights up with a notification is deeply isolating.
The hardest part isn't knowing what to do. It's knowing how to trust yourself when everything you thought you knew has been turned upside down. You may love your partner and still be furious with them. You may want to leave and still grieve the life you thought you'd have together. You may want to stay and be terrified of what that choice will cost you.
You don't have to have those answers right now. You need a way out of the constant second-guessing. Out of the shame. Out of the exhausting effort to keep everyone else comfortable while you're barely holding it together. For now, you just need somewhere to tell the truth about how bad things have gotten.
Therapy will be the place where the mask comes off. You don't have to edit your thoughts, put a happy spin on things, or have any idea what your next steps are. We can find them together.
If you're ready to find the courage to stop settling for scraps of connection. To trust yourself again. To flirt with your desires again. To give yourself permission to want more from love, from relationships, and from your life.
This time is entirely yours. Let's help you forge a path back to yourself again.
THERAPY SERVICES
My Services
Specialized therapy services designed to support high-achieving women in all of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, and Florida.
Therapy For When You've Had An Affair
Good people make incredibly complex choices when they are profoundly lonely or disconnected. Here, we focus on understanding your pain and your needs.
Therapy for High-Conflict Divorce
Documenting threats, walking on eggshells, and bracing every time your phone lights up with a notification is deeply isolating. You need an emotional shield and a ally as you navigate it all.
Therapy for When He's Had the Affair -Betrayal Trauma
Protecting everyone else while your own world is burning is a lonely, exhausting trauma. You do not have to carry the burden on your own.
It's time to give yourself permission to imagine a life that feels like yours again. Your middle+ years can be your most fearless years. Here, you can say and wonder about the scary things you hold inside.
Cry, rage, tremble - then rise bravely.
Therapy for infidelity & betrayal trauma, high-conflict divorce, & midlife reinvention in MA, CT, WA, & FL.
I’m Kimberly Schildbach, and I work with women who’ve spent decades holding it all together - professionally, emotionally, and for everyone else. Then something shifts.
You have an affair (or come close), he has an affair, and you're left wondering if the relationship should continue. The marriage that once defined you is now stuck in a high-conflict divorce. Or you're ready for a midlife reinvention after grieving a life that no longer fits. And beneath all the questions about your marriage is a harder one: Who am I now?
I specialize in helping women navigate these high-stakes transitions with clarity, courage, and self-respect. My work is structured, intelligent, and emotionally grounded - because there’s deep wisdom in what you feel, even when it’s messy or inconvenient. Together, we’ll translate those emotions into insight and direction so you can create what’s next with intention and confidence.
Whether you’re struggling with affair you had or betrayal trauma from his affair, struggling with a high-conflict divorce, or reimagining your purpose in midlife, I offer a steady, focused space to reconnect with yourself - the version of you that’s been quietly waiting beneath all the doing.
This is the work of becoming best friends with your inner world and letting that friendship guide everything that comes next.
