She Realized We Were Never Taught This

From the outside, Aimee work looks clinical, professional and grounded.

But underneath it is a deep knowing that something has been missing for a long time.

In therapy rooms across her career, she kept noticing the same pattern.

People were struggling with intimacy, desire, and connection to their bodies, yet they had never been given a real education around sexuality.

Most were still operating from what they learned in a ninth-grade health class, if they learned anything at all.

When Trauma Disconnects the Body

As a licensed marriage and family therapist and AASECT certified sex therapist, she works at the intersection of sexuality, trauma, and the body.

Many of her clients had experienced trauma at some point in their lives.

That trauma did not just live in memory.

It lived in the nervous system, in the body, and in the quiet disconnection from pleasure and desire.

She began to understand that sex therapy was not about performance or fixing something that was broken.

It was about helping people feel safe in their bodies again.

About rebuilding trust with sensation, boundaries, and curiosity.

Her work invites clients to unlearn shame, question outdated beliefs, and slowly reconnect with parts of themselves they were taught to ignore.

Not through pressure.

But through education, compassion, and embodied awareness.

Learning Business the Hard Way

Behind the depth of her clinical work was another reality.

No one had taught her how to build a business.

Graduate school prepared her to be a therapist, not an entrepreneur.

Marketing, lead generation, and sustainable growth were lessons she learned through mentorship, experimentation, and a lot of trial and error.

Other therapists helped guide her.

Experience became her teacher.

And slowly, she built a practice that reflected her values instead of burning her out.

Then the world shifted.

Before Covid, therapy was expected to happen in person.

Virtual sessions were often dismissed.

After Covid, access opened in ways that changed healthcare forever.

She found herself navigating new questions.

How much space is needed to hold in person.

How to honor the value of physical offices while recognizing that most clients eventually choose virtual care.

It became less about what was expected and more about what truly served both the client and the practitioner.

A Pause That Makes Space for More

Now, she is entering a new chapter.

A pause that is intentional, grounded, and full of vision.

When she returns, she plans to grow not just her practice, but her impact.

Bringing associates under her wing.

Expanding services.

Mentoring other therapists who were never taught how to build sustainable businesses either.

This season is not about doing more.

It is about doing what matters, with support, clarity, and space.

Rewriting the Sexual Narrative

At Reignelle, we see her work as part of a much larger movement.

One that says healing does not stop at insight.

It continues through education, embodiment, and honest conversations about the body.

Sexuality is not static.

It evolves as we do.

And when people are given the tools to understand it, they often find their way back to themselves.

Her story reminds us that healing happens when we are willing to question what we were taught and brave enough to learn something new.

You can connect with her on Instagram at @therapywithaimelmft or reach her directly via email at aimee.evninbingham@gmail.com.