AASECT Certified Sex Therapist

Meet Harry Dixon, MA, LMHC, LPCC, LPC, CST, The Gay Sex Therapist

Hi, I'm Harry.

I'm an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC #4340) — and a gay, Korean American man who built this practice because most therapy spaces were never designed with us in mind.

My work is warm, direct, and genuinely queer-centered. I don't pathologize desire. I center therapy on you. You shouldn't have to translate your life for your therapist.

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CA · LPCC #4340
WA · LMHC #LH60684311
NY · LMHC #015648
OR · LPC #C8199

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Together, we can explore and unlock your passions and desires so you can have the great sex you deserve!

My Story

Why I became
a sex therapist.

I grew up as the child of Korean immigrants, navigating the tensions between my family's conservative Presbyterian beliefs and my emerging identity as a gay man. That experience — learning to hold contradiction, to code-switch, to shrink — is something many of my clients know viscerally.

I became a therapist because I needed one who understood me and never found one. The existing spaces weren't built for gay men who were also people of color, also religious-trauma survivors, also curious about kink, also neurodivergent (I'm an ADHDer). I built this practice from that gap.

My sex therapy practice centers one core belief: you deserve a pleasurable and satisfying sex life. My job is to create a space secure enough that you can show up authentically — without the shame, without the apology.

Why Work With Me

What makes
therapy with me different.

Many gay men have encountered therapy that felt clinical, misaligned, or quietly judgmental. This practice was built differently from the start — from lived experience, not just clinical training.

Lived Experience

A Therapist Who Gets It

Gay, Korean American, neurodivergent, and raised in a conservative religious household — my lived experience informs my clinical lens and approach to treatment in ways that can't be taught in a classroom. Your story doesn't need a translator here.

AASECT Certified & Affirming

The Gold Standard, Applied Affirmingly

AASECT certification requires hundreds of supervised clinical hours, extensive sexuality education, and rigorous ethics training — not just a therapist who "also does sex stuff." I pair that expertise with an explicitly affirming, anti-racist, sex-positive framework where kink, nonmonogamy, and all desires are welcomed without judgment.

Intersectional & Accessible

All Your Identities, Held at Once

I center the intersection of race, sexuality, gender, and culture — Asian American and BIPOC LGBTQ+ clients receive care that holds all their identities at once, not just the one that brought them to therapy. All sessions are via secure telehealth across CA, WA, NY, and OR, with no commute and total privacy.

My Approach

How I
work.

My therapy is warm, direct, relational and evidence-based. I draw on multiple frameworks, earned wisdom, and always tailor the work to your specific history, goals, and pace.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT helps you disentangle from shame-based narratives and self-criticism. Instead of fighting uncomfortable thoughts, you learn to hold them differently — creating space for values-driven action and authentic living.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT provides practical tools for identifying and shifting unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. Applied through an affirming, sex-positive lens, it addresses anxiety, performance concerns, and compulsive patterns without judgment.

The PLISSIT Model: Sex-Positive & Intersectional Lens

Every session is grounded in explicit affirmation of diverse sexualities, gender identities, and relationship structures. I hold an intersectional view — your race, culture, faith history, and neurodivergence are never footnotes; they are central to the work.

Trauma-Informed Throughout

I'm deeply aware of the traumas many LGBTQ+ and BIPOC clients carry — from religious and family systems, to discrimination, to the long shadow of shame. All work is paced carefully, and safety always comes first.

Compassion-Focused Exploration

Progress means understanding yourself through a compassionate, nonjudgmental lens. This dissolves negative self-talk — whether externally imposed or internally reinforced — and allows you to make empowered, informed changes.

Credentials & Training

I’m a Sex-pert.

I hold a Master of Arts in Counseling specializing in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of San Diego. My post-graduate training in sex therapy through the Sexual Health Alliance (SHA) and AASECT gave me the specialized framework to address sexual health comprehensively and without pathology.

AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) certification is the recognized gold standard in sex therapy. It requires hundreds of supervised clinical hours, extensive continuing education in human sexuality, and adherence to a rigorous professional code of ethics. Less than a fraction of therapists hold this credential.

I am licensed across four states, making me available to clients throughout California, Washington, New York, and Oregon via secure telehealth.

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California LPCC #4340

Washington LMHC #LH60684311

New York LMHC #015648

Oregon Licensed Counselor #C8199

AASECT Certified Sex Therapist

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