About Cloud Bear Healing Arts
Cloud Bear studio in Nevada City provides a calm, healing environment for veterinary acupuncture treatments as well as space for qigong movement and meditation classes and workshops.
Enhancing quality of life for pets and their people.
Dr. Mimi Vishoot, owner
At Cloud Bear, all veterinary services provided are designed to work in concert with the wellness, diagnostic and surgical care provided by your primary care veterinarian.
About Mimi
Dr. Mimi Vishoot and Jemaine
I practiced general small animal veterinary medicine for 26 years, 22 of which were here in Western Nevada County. I owned Pleasant Valley Veterinary Center in Penn Valley for 13 of those years. With a fantastic staff and amazing colleagues, I was able to practice veterinary medicine at my own pace until it became clear that I was ready to transition to a calmer approach to providing veterinary care in our community.
My Background…
I grew up the youngest of 4 kids, tromping around and riding my horse bareback through the oak woodland hillsides of the Santa Cruz mountains. My mom had been a nurse, and my father, an orthopedic surgeon, was an outdoorsman and nature-lover. Dad shared his passion with us through backpacking and ski trips in the Sierra Nevada.
Spending time working in my dad’s office over summer breaks gave me a taste for what the medical profession had to offer. It also gave me a chance to watch dad’s healing hands in action. And when the veterinarian came out to treat the horses at the little boarding stable I thought, “Hey! That looks like a cool way to be a doctor!”
Fast forward to a Bachelor’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology with a Minor in Chemistry from Humboldt State University in 1985, followed by a few years working in the biotechnology field, I finally pursued my dream and earned my Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from UC Davis in 1994. As a bonus, I had the good fortune of marrying my beloved husband, Steve Nicholson, on July 17, 1993.
In my spare time I enjoy hiking, downhill skiing, walking the dogs, practicing qigong, as well as cooking, mountain biking and singing in Sierra Master Chorale with Steve.