Lura Smedstad, LPC

Lura Smedstad is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience supporting adults and teens through complex life transitions. She integrates a deep respect for the spiritual source she sees within each person with expressive therapeutic art processes and a practical cognitive behavioral therapy approach. Over the years she has focused on easing the effects of trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and loss, while helping clients set sustainable life goals and build healthier relationships. Her work also addresses stress, addictions, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, career concerns, compassion fatigue, and caregiver or aging-related stresses.

Lura brings a varied professional background to her counseling practice. Early work included ministerial partnership alongside her husband in several Unity churches across the country, and in Minneapolis she helped establish and lead a three-year school for personal growth and spiritual maturity for a decade. She completed a BA in Fine Arts and a master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Art Therapy, including practicum experience in a psychiatric hospital setting. From 2016 to 2021 she practiced as an associate in an established counseling clinic, and since 2020 she has provided care via telehealth from her home office. Clients have described her approach as "direct but compassionate," and she aims to help each person access their own inner voice of wisdom as part of the healing process.