Enhancing Sexual Intimacy
1h
Talli Rosenbaum
Psychotherapist and Sex Therapist
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Get AccessFull VideoThis Clinical Case Discussion offers a compelling glimpse into how experienced sexologists like Talli Rosenbaum effectively work with couples struggling to integrate sexual intimacy into their lives. If you’ve encountered couples where sex is rarely part of their daily routine yet is a significant source of distress, Rosenbaum’s approach provides valuable insights. She emphasizes the importance of shifting focus from performance to playful exploration and curiosity—techniques that can transform stale sexual patterns into channels of trust, vitality, and connection.
The case of John and Maria illustrates complex factors influencing their intimacy: differing attachment styles (avoidant and anxious), past traumas such as a family suicide, and individual histories shaping their current sexual and emotional behaviors. Rosenbaum’s nuanced understanding of trauma, emotional security, and relational dynamics offers a roadmap for creating safe spaces where desire can flourish again. She stresses the significance of addressing underlying wounds and relational patterns to promote authentic connection and sexual fulfillment and discusses how therapists can utilize approaches like sensate focus, curiosity exercises, and incorporating playful, energetic activities to reignite vitality and reduce distress.
This discussion invites clinicians to rethink how they approach monogamous couples who have lost the joy and spontaneity in their sex lives while addressing the complexities of couple relationships and individual differences.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize subtle signs of emotional and sexual disconnection in long-term couples and how these can impact intimacy.
- Explore therapeutic approaches to reignite desire and vitality when sex feels absent or routine.
- Develop strategies to help couples move beyond performance-focused frameworks toward playful, curiosity-driven intimacy.
- Identify how trauma, attachment styles, and relational patterns influence sexual engagement and how to address these in therapy.
Produced in 2025
Talli Rosenbaum
Psychotherapist and Sex Therapist
Lecturer
Talli Yehuda Rosenbaum is an individual and couple therapist and is certified as a sex therapist and sex therapy supervisor by The International Association of Psychosexual Therapists (IAPST) as well as the Israeli Society for Sex Therapy (ISST).
She cohosts the Intimate Judaism podcast and is co-author of the book “I am For My Beloved: A Guide to Enhanced Intimacy for Married Couples.” and co-edited the Springer textbook entitled “The Overactive Pelvic Floor.”She has authored over 40 journal articles and several book chapters on trauma and sexuality, sexual pain disorders, and sexuality and Judaism and is an associate editor of the Sexual Medicine Reviews. Talli earned a Masters in Clinical Sociology and Counseling and a certificate in Mental Health Studies from the University of North Texas in Neve Yerushalayim. She holds a bachelors degree in Physical Therapy from Northwestern University. Before re-training as a psychotherapist, she treated patients as a physical therapist for 25 years.