Dr. Shagun Sahu is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Oregon. She graduated with a Doctorate of Psychology degree, with an emphasis in Health Psychology. She has worked and trained in hospital and primary care settings, suicide crisis lines, inpatient psychiatric facilities, and with homeless veterans on the island of Oahu. Dr. Sahu is a Board-Certified Coach (BCC) through the Center for Credentialing and Education and has worked as a relationship coach in the Empowered, Secured, Loved Relationship Program. Dr. Sahu works with individuals using the lens of complex trauma to help bring awareness into how one’s past may have shaped the adaptive and maladaptive behaviors of their present. At the core of her work, she promotes improving the relationship with oneself to maintain long term healing.
As a therapist, Dr. Sahu brings her warmth and compassion to her work and blends a variety of approaches depending on what works best for her patients. She uses the frameworks of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Inner-Child work.
As a coach, Dr. Sahu has worked with clients around the globe and specializes in problematic relationship patterns. She approaches her work through the basis of Attachment Theory and helps individuals of all ages and couples. Her goal as a coach is to help clients build feelings of security within themselves and in their attachment to others and overcome barriers to finding and maintaining healthy relationships, whether it is with a partner, family member, or friend.