Mia Pixley, Ph.D. is a mother, clinical psychologist, and artist who uses her cello, voice, and music performance to study and represent aspects of self and other, community, and the natural world. Similar to the collaborative lens from which she approaches her psychotherapy practice, Mia’s artistic collaborations lead with curiosity, honesty, humility, and humor. Protectively whimsical and simultaneously melancholic, Mia’s music gravitates toward the beauty hidden in sorrow, pain, and loss and this beauty’s potential to inspire curiosity, wonder, rebirth, and reconnection to ourselves, each other, and the natural world.

She has a professional studies diploma in cello performance from San Francisco Conservatory of Music (Class of ‘18). Mia has studied classical cello with Joel Becktell, Wendy Sutter, (previous cellist of Bang On A Can), and Jennifer Culp (previous cellist of Kronos Quartet). Mia has also studied with Mark Summer (previous cellist of the Turtle Island Quartet) to learn extended cello techniques and study composition. Mia found her vocal resonance under the tutelage of legendary NYC singer, Ayana Lowe.

She lives in the California Bay Area. Mia cares about community, interconnectivity, and nature. Mia released her first full length album titled “Margaret in the Wild" July 2021. This was followed by a poem and music collaboration record titled “Passage”, April 2022. Mia will share her first immersive virtual art and music collection, “Coral Enneagrams: Sound of the reef”, via the experiential art platform wildxyz in September 2023.