Since opening Commonplace, llc in April of 2022 our mission has shifted into Holistic Healing practices. We are a yoga studio, have mental health clinician's, massage therapists, reiki and sound healing. Our skilled professionals support healing many physical and emotional challenges.
We also have individual office space to rent, meeting rooms to accommodate group needs, and an onsite staff break room, high-speed internet, guest Wi-fi, handicapped parking and an entrance.
The grounds host expansive potential with your creative ideas for outdoor events under our tent for yoga, meetings, meditation practices, etc. Bring your business ideas, rent a space, and grow with our community at Commonplace.
We are located onMain Street in Derby Lineacross from Baxter Park, with a beautiful view of Owl’s Head, a ski resort in Canada.
Introducing April Bodette, the visionary behind Commonplace. As a licensed Mental Health Counselor at her private practice, Maple Woods MindBody Wellbeing, April has carved a unique niche in the field. Her innovative approach, combining play therapy through Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation and Yoga therapy, has inspired her to expand within Commonplace. April's primary mission is to use her expertise to foster a comfortable and safe environment for individuals and families. Since the inception of her practice in 2015-16, April's services have been a guiding light for numerous individuals, helping them navigate through stressful challenges by questioning negative thoughts and understanding the source of specific behaviors and emotional patterns. With the right tools and a fresh perspective, a brighter outlook is always within reach.
As a young child, April was born into a family culture of descendants from Canada and Ireland that will shape her internal and external experiences and how she found her desire to help others. The vulnerable child who has needs and who has value. The vulnerable caretaker who has needs and who has value. Who would have guessed that a generation apart, generational experiences would land and repeat in generational experiences. April aspires for her clients to become enlightened by guiding individuals and families to understand their patterns of vulnerabilities and needs in order to rewrite their stories. Framing the strengths, desires, and motivations can bring someone from many emotions managing their lifestyle to managing their many emotions and knowing they are capable of being curious, compassionate, calm, clear, caring, creative, courageous, confident, and connected beings. April has learned feeling brave allows one to be vulnerable, that one's needs can be met, and that everyone brings value to share. The actual practice is with the person who is brave: herself. Looking back at her own life, April was always in a safe place, even when it felt not true, because she was with herself on an adventure, exploring and being with the things she loved most.
As a child, April spent countless hours in nature. Not knowing it then, April's intuitive self-teacher and explorer provides the basis today in her private practice in mental health counseling. Some of her strongest memories are transplanting small seedling trees to grow into another forest—gardening with her elders, and learning by being with the land. Building tree houses with the best floor plan a child could imagine. Today, her favorite things in nature are bike riding, swimming, backcountry skiing, walking, running, picking wildflowers, and making flower arrangements. April is largely an animal lover. She found communication skills being in nature with animals. She could observe, listen, and nurture the animal's senses of excitement, contentment, fear, or danger. She shows up with love, compassion, and boundaries in support to find in herself intellectual courage and safety. Horses were her actual line of communication and connectivity. Through the mind and body, April found how much the thinking mind plays a role in connection, trust, and safety. April relates this unspoken art form of being in nature and with animals with her Somatic-based mental health counseling and Yoga therapy practices.
April holds a Master's in Science degree from Springfield College and is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Clinician in private practice. She is a local Head Start preschool program consultant and enjoys helping children. Staff find their subtle bodies to make connections, trust, and safety in a way that communicates a healthy learning environment. April's expertise in trauma-informed, attachment, and parent-child relationship-building psychotherapy is a testament to her commitment to her clients. She works with ages from prenatal birth to adulthood of all genders, abilities, disabilities, cultures, foster children, adoption, and socioeconomic differences. April continues her education in these areas, always striving to provide the best care for her clients.
April is trained in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, is continuing a Trauma-Informed Yoga therapy study, and blends her mental health counseling career with Yoga.
April has a strong intuitive sense and can hold space to explore the mind-body connection and find answers at one's own pace.
