What Does Denise Richards' Ex Aaron Phypers Do for a Living? Inside His Job

Aaron Phypers’ work in the frequency medicine industry was a hot topic during his estranged wife Denise Richards’ time on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Prior to the couple splitting in 2025 amid domestic violence and harassment allegations, the Denise Richards & Her Wild Things star spoke on the RHOBH After Show about Phypers specializing in “holistic” medical procedures at his Malibu clinic but insisted that he wasn’t involved in “cuckoo weird s***.”

“[Frequency medicine] has, like, been around for hundreds of years, holistic medicine, all over the world. It’s different for every person,” she explained in 2019.

Phypers has also dabbled in acting, including guest starring with Richards in two episodes of daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful in 2019.

Denise Richards and Estranged Husband Aaron Phypers' Relationship Timeline

Keep scrolling for a look at what Phypers does for a living.

Frequency Medicine

According to the Cleveland Clinic, frequency medicine is “one of several therapies that use low-level electrical current to treat musculoskeletal injuries and pain.” The clinic says that this form of treatment can “relieve acute and chronic pain and may aid tissue healing” by targeting pressure spots with “specific frequencies of current.”

While frequency medicine can be helpful in alleviating muscle and nerve pain, it is not recommended for anyone who is pregnant, has a seizure condition or has a pacemaker because of its use of electrical currents.

What Aaron Phypers Has Said

At one time, Phypers operated a Malibu wellness clinic that specialized in frequency medicine. He shocked Richards’ RHOBH castmates in an April 2020 episode by claiming that everything they were “taught about how disease process and stuff works is not true.”

“I have to be careful,” he said after a pause. “[At the] age of 12, I was living next to the largest nuclear facility in North America. I watched everybody die of cancer. I couldn’t understand why we could split an atom with sound and cause a nuclear explosion. If you look at an atom, there’s lots of space, right? Electron, proton, neutron, whatever. There’s a lot of space, space, it’s empty space, right? 99.9 percent is space, but it’s oscillating at a frequency that appears to be real in our reality. Does that make sense?”

Phypers then warned everyone at the dinner table that there was “cancer in every one of you right now,” before adding: “If we end up off of Mulholland [Drive], you know why.”

Aaron Phypers and Denise Richards in June 2023. Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage

Richards elaborated that “certain organizations” didn’t want to see nontraditional medicine succeed. As the mood grew more tense at the cast dinner party, Richards ultimately convinced her husband to drop the subject.

“We’re not talking about this anymore. It’s for our safety. Stop,” she insisted.

It’s safe to say that Phypers’ explanation of his work wasn’t convincing for the RHOBH crew, as Lisa Rinna admitted she was struggling to “wrap [her] brain around what Aaron is saying.”

“This party for me started awkward and then it got bizarre and then it got more bizarre. Cuckoo,” Garcelle Beauvais joked.

Denise Richards’ Treatment

Richards confirmed on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show in 2019 that she actually met Phypers at his clinic while she was undergoing “preventative DNA repair.” (The couple tied the knot in September 2018 in Malibu. Richards was previously married to Charlie Sheen between 2001 and 2006.)

“This is very hard for me to explain,” the Wild Things actress said of her husband’s work. “He doesn’t touch you or anything, it’s not stuff like that. It’s light and sound therapy. … How he described what is going on is Ella Fitzgerald sings and breaks glass, right? The frequency breaks that.”

Pending Lawsuit

Us Weekly reported in January 2025 that Phypers had been sued in November 2024 by the husband of a former client who accused him of violating a verbal agreement about their treatment plan. Elina Katsioula-Beall’s husband, Rupert Perry, claimed that Phypers had promised “a stem cell treatment for her cancer” offered at his clinic would “cure or at least ameliorate [her] condition.”

“[He] claimed that the treatment had a 98 percent success rate and he was so confident in it that, if it did not work, he would refund to Ms. Katsioula-Beall and Mr. Perry 50 percent of the money they [paid] to him for the treatment,” Perry wrote in his lawsuit.

Perry claimed that his wife, who died in May 2024, paid Phypers $126,000 for the treatment but later requested $63,000 back when she was informed that her tumors had grown by 25 percent. “[Phypers] ignored her request and instead proposed that she undergo another round of treatment,” Perry alleged in his lawsuit.

Aaron Phypers and Denise Richards in August 2024. Leon Bennett/Getty Images for A+E Networks

“On June 28, 2024, Mr. Perry spoke with [Phypers] by telephone, who acknowledged the debt but proffered a series of excuses for his failure to pay the $63,000,” Perry wrote to the court. “[Phypers’] aforementioned misconduct was intentional, willful and done for the purpose of depriving Plaintiff of property and/or legal rights or otherwise causing injury. This despicable conduct subjected Plaintiff to cruel and unjust hardship in conscious disregard of his rights.”

A source close to Phypers subsequently told Us that he was “just the middleman who provided a space for the procedure to take place.” The source also said that “the CEO of the company who provided the treatments was the one who promised a refund,” not Phypers himself.

The legal dispute has yet to be resolved and Phypers has not responded to the lawsuit.

Clinic’s Closure

Us reported in July 2025 that Phypers shut down his wellness center in October 2024 after six years of operation. He wrote in his divorce petition: “I had to close down my business last year and have made [no] income since.”

Phypers acknowledged that he typically spent nearly $105,000 on monthly bills. He attributed the large sum to $18,000 on rent, $5,000 on repairs, $7,000 on child care, $10,000 on groceries, $15,000 on eating out, $8,000 on utilities, $500 on his cell phone, $5,000 on laundry and another $20,000 on clothing.

He estimated that Richards earned $250,000 a month from her OnlyFans account, acting work and various endorsements.

Acting Jobs

Phypers dabbled in acting once he married Richards in 2018. He played a first officer in the Weather Channel and Smithsonian Channel docuseries Air Crash Investigation in addition to appearing in multiple short films. In 2020, Phypers joined Richards for a cameo in daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful, where he served as a body double for her costar Thorsten Kaye.

He is set to have a more substantial role in Richards and her ex-boyfriend Patrick Muldoon’s upcoming movie Dirty Hands, a crime drama about a drug deal gone wrong.