About Me
My name is Colleen Verhamme. My work is about helping you come home to yourself through somatic coaching—a body-centered approach to growth, healing, and change. We live in a world that teaches us to ignore, override, and silence the voice of our bodies. I'm passionate about changing that. I dream of a world where more people are connected to their inner wisdom and take action from that place.
Outside of somatic coaching, I have eight years of experience in consulting. I'm also a wife, mom to a beautiful baby girl and a four-year old doodle, amateur line dancer, writing enthusiast, and Notre Dame football fan.
My Story
My journey into somatics started from a desperate place: I had been battling chronic neck & shoulder pain for almost ten years. Like many, I struggled with anxiety which became more prevalent after the pandemic. I had tried it all: workouts, stretching, meditation, talk therapy, physical therapy. And while some of these things helped, none were a cure.
Then in 2023, I stumbled across a podcast that introduced me to the idea of somatic work. I figured it couldn't hurt to try something new to help my chronic tension. Within a few weeks of working with a somatic coach, my neck pain dissipated. Nothing else had ever gotten me results like this. I was blown away, and that's when I knew there was something powerful in this approach.
Little did I know that this was just the beginning of the positive impact somatic work would have in my life. As I went deeper, I found myself shifting from managing my anxiety to actually releasing what was underneath it in my body. I gained more curiosity and compassion for myself and others. I healed from painful memories and reclaimed a sense of peace and ease I had been missing. I found clarity in what I was being called to, and the courage to act on it.
My somatic journey felt difficult and uncertain at times, but the changes have been incredibly deep and sustainable. And that's what has landed me here: serving as a somatic coach, where I help others in their journey of transformation.
Before I tried working with a coach, I was a do-it-yourself kind of person. I was determined to find the free or cheap self-help approaches to fixing my pain and anxiety. When I finally admitted that the DIY approach only got me so far, I found the courage to invest in working with a coach. It's one of the best decisions I ever made. Along the way, I came to learn that true growth cannot happen alone: we need others support us in our transformations. The human body relies on co-regulation from other humans' nervous systems from the moment we are born. That doesn't make us weak, it makes us human.
I love serving as a coach and having the opportunity to share the tools that have been so transformative in my own life.
"There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it."
-Elizabeth A. Behnke