Embodied, culturally conscious conversations about sexuality
Tahiyya Martin is a therapist, sexologist, educator, and consultant whose work explores sexuality through the interconnected lenses of embodiment, trauma awareness, pleasure, culture, relationships, grief, identity, and erotic reclamation.
She provides selected consultation, invited education, speaking, and guest teaching for helping professionals, educational institutions, community spaces, and organizations seeking more thoughtful and inclusive approaches to sexuality.
Tahiyya’s work is grounded in professional knowledge while remaining warm, accessible, embodied, and deeply respectful of the complexity of people’s sexual lives.
Core Areas of Expertise
Embodied Sexuality and Erotic Reclamation
Exploring how people reconnect with the body, pleasure, desire, expression, and personal agency after shame, disconnection, difficult relationships, life transitions, or trauma.
This work recognizes sexuality as part of the whole person—not simply a behavior, performance, or clinical concern.
Sexual Shame and Sexual Scripts
Examining the beliefs, expectations, and unspoken rules people inherit about sex, gender, desire, pleasure, bodies, relationships, and intimacy.
Tahiyya helps individuals and professionals understand how family, religion, culture, media, trauma, silence, and social expectations can shape sexual identity and behavior.
Sexuality After Trauma
Providing trauma-aware education about the ways trauma may affect embodiment, safety, consent, intimacy, pleasure, arousal, desire, boundaries, and connection.
This work honors trauma without allowing trauma to become the only story a person carries about their sexuality.
Pleasure, Desire, and Intimacy
Creating more nuanced conversations about pleasure access, responsive and spontaneous desire, body awareness, erotic voice, relational communication, aging, and changing sexual identities across the lifespan.
Culturally Responsive Sexuality Education
Centering the ways race, culture, religion, gender expectations, community values, family systems, and historical experiences shape conversations about sexuality.
Tahiyya’s work is especially attentive to BIPOC women and communities whose bodies, voices, pleasure, and sexual experiences have often been stigmatized, controlled, misunderstood, or excluded.
Kink-Informed Erotic Recovery
Exploring consent-centered, somatic, and kink-informed perspectives on erotic recovery for individuals who intentionally want to understand sexuality through this lens.
This developing area of Tahiyya’s work examines how choice, boundaries, negotiation, sensation, power, agency, and embodied awareness may contribute to sexual reclamation.
Tantra-Informed Embodiment
Integrating selected tantra-informed principles such as breath, sensory awareness, presence, embodiment, pleasure, energy awareness, and the relationship between sexuality and meaning.
This work is educational and embodiment-focused rather than an offering of public Tantra practice or initiation.
Grief, Identity, and Sexuality Across Life Transitions
Exploring how loss, aging, body changes, menopause, relationship changes, caregiving, identity shifts, and major life transitions may influence desire, pleasure, intimacy, and connection to the erotic self.
Selected Consulting and Professional Support
Tahiyya offers a limited number of one-time and project-based consultations for therapists, educators, facilitators, organizations, and program leaders seeking greater depth and confidence in sexuality-related work.
Consultation may include:
- sexuality-informed case conceptualization for helping professionals
- sexual shame and sexual-script exploration
- trauma-aware approaches to sexuality and embodiment
- culturally responsive sexuality education
- program and curriculum development
- workshop and training design
- consultation on embodied and experiential learning
- review of sexual-wellness programming
- integration of Sacred Erotic Integration™ principles
- guidance on consent, scope, ethics, and participant safety
- consultation for community and organizational initiatives
Professional consultation is educational and does not replace clinical supervision, legal advice, formal certification, or psychotherapy.
Speaking, Training, and Guest Teaching
Tahiyya considers selected invitations for:
- keynote and conference presentations
- panel discussions
- guest lectures and invited educational sessions for colleges, universities, and professional programs
- professional trainings
- continuing-education collaborations
- community conversations
- organizational workshops
- facilitated educational experiences
- podcast, media, and expert interviews
Presentations can be adapted for clinical professionals, educators, university students, wellness communities, nonprofit organizations, faith or community groups, and general audiences.
Sample Speaking and Training Topics
- The Stories We Carry About Sex
- Understanding Sexual Shame and Sexual Scripts
- Embodied Sexuality and Erotic Reclamation
- Sexuality After Trauma
- Pleasure, Desire, and the Body
- Reclaiming Erotic Voice and Personal Agency
- Cultural Messages About Sex and Pleasure
- Grief, Aging, and the Changing Erotic Self
- Working With Sexual Shame in Clinical Practice
- Beyond Talk: Experiential Methods for Deep Healing
- Sacred Erotic Integration™ in Education and Professional Practice
- Kink-Informed Perspectives on Consent, Agency, and Erotic Recovery
- Tantra-Informed Embodiment and Sexuality Education
Topics may be adapted to the audience, setting, and desired learning outcomes.
Who This Work Is For
Tahiyya works with:
- therapists and mental-health professionals
- sexuality educators
- universities and academic programs
- professional associations
- wellness and embodiment practitioners
- nonprofit and community organizations
- clinical practices and group practices
- conference, professional-development, and educational-program organizers
- faith and cultural communities seeking healthier conversations about sexuality
- groups and individuals seeking sexuality education outside of psychotherapy
Sacred Erotic Integration™
Sacred Erotic Integration™ is Tahiyya Martin’s integrative framework for understanding the relationship between embodied safety, inner healing, sexuality, pleasure, relational integrity, meaning, and authentic expression.
The framework is informed by trauma research, attachment and developmental psychology, somatic psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, grief theory, and sexual well-being research.
SEI provides a foundation for Tahiyya’s clinical perspective, professional consultation, writing, invited education, speaking, and developing body of work in embodied sexology.
Bring Tahiyya Into Your Organization or Community
Tahiyya brings professional depth, cultural awareness, warmth, and embodied insight to conversations that are often difficult, avoided, oversimplified, or surrounded by shame.
To inquire about speaking, training, guest teaching, consultation, media, or collaborative projects, please complete the inquiry form with information about your audience, goals, preferred format, and proposed timeline.