Space Between Counseling Services - Susan Stork, CST

Space Between Counseling Services - Susan Stork, CST Modern Therapy for Teens + Relationships + S*xual Health + Group Work

📍Maryland + FL + NM 🧿

Susan Stork is a ASSECT Certified S*x Therapist + Relationship Therapist + founder of Space Between Counseling Services in Baltimore, Maryland. Space Between Counseling Services (SBCS):

Our Team:

Specializing in counseling for individuals + couples using Stan Tatkin’s PACT approach + s*x-positive, trauma-informed practices, with 9 therapists at SBCS help you move through the muck of modern life --> into a life of deeper purpose + connection + awareness. Susan offers client work in � states - via Telehealth + Face to Face in MD
Maryland (LCPC) + New Mexico (LPCC) + Delaware (LPCMH) + Florida via �

Our SBCS Team offers mostly Telehealth in the State of Maryland - some Face to Face - email: Contact@SpaceBetweenCounselingServices.com for up-to-date information. Specialties: https://www.spacebetweencounselingservices.com/nine-areas-of-work

February 15, 2000Dubai 🇦🇪Lying in the sand with the rising behind me in Dubai.At the time it just felt like travel.Oce...
03/07/2026

February 15, 2000
Dubai 🇦🇪

Lying in the sand with the rising behind me in Dubai.

At the time it just felt like travel.
Ocean 🌊 Sky ☀️ Sand.

But that trip planted something.

Not long after, I became a flight attendant ✈️
Aviation opened the world to me and through that airline I met the man who would become my husband. We are coming up on 25 years together 🤍

In 2008 we returned to Dubai for an interview. The trip was offered, but the aviation pivot with them did not happen.

Life has a funny way of building anyway.

Another aviation turn would arrive in 2016.
And somewhere between travel, love, and work the foundations of the life I live now were quietly forming.

Some structures are steel and glass 🏗️
Others are the invisible architecture of a life unfolding ✨

03/06/2026

Some days being a boss feels less like leadership
and more like herding cats and killing plants. 🌿🐈

Owning a building.
Running a therapy practice.
Holding space for clinicians, clients, systems, and community.

Everyone imagines the vision part.
The ideas.
The impact.

Fewer people talk about the trials and tribulations behind the scenes.

• The broken things
• The hard conversations
• The constant decisions
• The weight of keeping the lights on
• The humans… always the humans

Leadership is not control.
It is staying steady in the chaos while the ecosystem grows around you.

Some days the cats scatter.
Some days the plants wilt.

And some days, somehow, the whole thing blooms. 🌱

And today in the middle of one of those messy leadership days, a small bright thing arrived.

A piece of snail mail from Susan in Georgia. ✉️

Stickers inside.
A thoughtful note.
A reminder that connection travels in ways we do not always expect.

We have never met in real life.
Only through Instagram.

And yet the gesture landed with meaning.

I will use the stickers and think about that reminder that connection can travel much farther than we imagine.

Little kindnesses matter.

To the other practice owners and community builders out there…

How are you holding the balance between vision and reality right now?

🌱SMS #

I have a dear friend of more than 20 years. 🤍We met at my wedding through my ex.Life did what life does.• They later div...
03/05/2026

I have a dear friend of more than 20 years. 🤍
We met at my wedding through my ex.

Life did what life does.

• They later divorced
• He passed away before age 37
• And she and I stayed friends

Friendships sometimes form in the most unexpected relational webs.

One of the most reliable ways adults make lasting friends is through other trusted friends. Being vetted through community matters.

⚡️As a relational therapist, one of the most processed themes in MY office is friendship 🫂

• The absence of it
• The betrayal within it
• Couples realizing they built a life together but have very little shared community

And here is the part I feel most right now.
During this chemo season of my life, this snail mail friend has been one of my lifelines. 🕊️

Quietly steady.
Showing up in the ways that matter.

Friendship is NOT a side dish to life.
It is one of the main courses. 🍲

And sometimes the most enduring ones begin in rooms you would *never* expect ✨

A few things I am curious about from this FB SBCS community:

• Who has been a steady friend in your life through the hardest seasons?

• Did you meet them in an unexpected way?

• How do you tend to your friendships as an adult?

• Do you and your partner(s) have shared friendships or mostly separate ones?

I would love to hear your stories.

🤍
SMS

On my way to an endoscopy + colonoscopy this afternoon instead of seeing Florence + the Machine in Prague. 🚨 Don’t over...
03/05/2026

On my way to an endoscopy + colonoscopy this afternoon instead of seeing Florence + the Machine in Prague.

🚨 Don’t over look your health because sometimes DNA is stronger than your game plan.

Thank you, DNA 🧬

I look forward to seeing Abby’s take on Prague and 🫁

I and my people - cannot wait to see on the U.S. side of things… even though WE would have much preferred to catch F+TM on the European side.

Honestly, everyone deserves a break from American life this spring. 🌍✨

Today is scopes instead of songs.

“This is a continuation of the years.”Since 2022 I have been studying my temperament like it is sacred text.Grief stri...
03/02/2026

“This is a continuation of the years.”

Since 2022 I have been studying my temperament like it is sacred text.

Grief stripped me down.
My estranged father’s complicated passing.
A cousin lost to su***de.
The quiet collapse of a dream to build my business into deep partnership.

In the therapy room, the rare but real weight of long term work, mostly individual work.

Witnessing fragmentation.
Identity loss.
The continuation of healing and what it requires of me.

Most people see me as a therapist.

Behind the scenes, from the roots up, this practice has generated over 4.7 million.

No third parties dictating our flow.

More out of network empowerment than most systems can name.

An almost endless sliding scale and pro bono structure that would make a spreadsheet blush.

We even bought a building to house what was not becoming the partnership I once imagined. 🍀

All while parenting a middle schooler now turned teen.
All while loving a partner gone more than half the year.

Loss that uproots.
Responsibility that does not pause.
Work that does not shrink.

These years have not just been about survival.
They have been about knowing myself.

Even if I could have folded into the tidy narratives that look stable from the outside, something in me would have remained unfinished.

Home is not one storyline.
It is many rooms.
Many people.

They know me.
I know them.
And across rooms, it bridges.

That web of knowing.
That is home. 🤍

⬇️⬇️⬇️

in progress ☀️
02/28/2026

in progress ☀️



Saffron prefers my partner. No question. She waits for him. Lights up for him. Chooses him.But on my worst chemo days, w...
02/26/2026

Saffron prefers my partner. No question. She waits for him. Lights up for him. Chooses him.

But on my worst chemo days, when he is out running errands and I am horizontal and quiet, she stays. Perched. Close.

Maybe she is not pretending. 🕊️

Today we cracked the window just a few inches.
Together we watched the vultures, hawks, and crows ride the air currents over the Jones Falls corridor.

Cold February air moving through the room. Silence. Two beings in a bed. Not performing. Not pushing.

Just breathing.
Simple things feel holy right now.
A cracked window.
A small body beside mine.
A moment of freedom inside constraint.

I will take it.

Six rounds. 💉One every three weeks. 🗓️Here is the rhythm.About a week and a half of unpredictable responses. 🌊Then a wee...
02/22/2026

Six rounds. 💉
One every three weeks. 🗓️

Here is the rhythm.

About a week and a half of unpredictable responses. 🌊
Then a week and a half of more predictable energy. 🌿
Then it begins again. 🔁

I had my second treatment on Friday.

If you notice shifts in scheduling, N***y and I are doing our best to hold the moving pieces. 🧩 Some days I cannot talk or respond. My body decides. 🫀

If you feel underserviced, please reach out to both of us. We will find you. Sessions are still happening, just with more flex and flow. 🤍

You will see my stories blow up on steroid days. 🚀
On painful days, you will see nothing. It is all processing. 🌑

These photos represent my current self, my past self, and my most recent self before the bald self. All of them are me. 🪞

I am still a therapist to those I have traveled many moons with and to those who are the right fit for this timing in my life. 🌙

Grateful for all my clients. 🤍

And this is chemo.

I lost my hair exactly two weeks after the first treatment. It no longer felt like mine. Cutting it short felt powerful. ✂️

If you are starting chemo, consider cutting your hair early. Even shave a small spot to get used to the texture. It softens the shock. 🌬️

This is not defeat.
This is adaptation. 🔥

Sessions continue. 🛋️
Leadership continues. 🏛️
Life continues. 🌙

With rhythm.
With grace. 🤍

Susan Morgan Stork
Founder, Space Between Counseling Services

Second (or Third) Career? 35+ and Pivoting into Therapy? 🌿This is for you.If you have already lived inside a system —🏢 C...
02/22/2026

Second (or Third) Career? 35+ and Pivoting into Therapy? 🌿

This is for you.

If you have already lived inside a system —

🏢 Corporate
🏥 Healthcare
📚 Education
🤲🏽 Spiritual or community services
❤️ Nonprofit

You know what burnout feels like.
You know what bureaucracy does to meaning.
You are not looking for another machine. ❌

And you are definitely not looking for performative empowerment.

You are looking for work that fits.
And lasts. 🔁

Here is the part no one says out loud:

Second and third career clinicians often rush.

• You want to catch up.
• You want to prove you made the right pivot.
• You want to accelerate into independence.

But formation still takes time.

Even at 38.
Even at 47.
Even at 55.

Depth is not age dependent.
It is developmental. 🧠❤️

Since 2015, Space Between Counseling Services has been building clinicians from practicum ➝ intern ➝ LGPC ➝ LCPC ➝ specialist ➝ practice owner.

Not rushed.
Built correctly. 🛠️

Our three year LGPC Fellowship is designed for clinicians who want:

✨ Structure without corporate churn
✨ Supervision that respects your lived experience
✨ Mentorship beyond minimum requirements
✨ Specialty development that sets you apart
✨ A path toward sustainable private practice
✨ The option to become a uniquely specialized clinician
✨ The foundation to one day operate as a practice owner — even insurance free — if that aligns with your long term vision
✨ Financial stability without sacrificing your nervous system
✨ Work that can eventually fit into a 3–4 day week with alignment

This is not a therapy mill.

This is formation. 🌱

We are accepting only 2 to 4 clinicians for this cohort.

📅 Applications open March 15
📅 Close April 15

If you are 35+ and entering clinical work as a second or third act — and you want to build it right the first time — we would love to connect.

📩 For next steps and detailed information, email:

Support@SpaceBetweenCounselingServices.com

N***y, our Client Care Specialist and Office Manager, will guide you through the next steps.

Second acts deserve strong foundations. 🔥

💌 A Letter from SusanWrong choices reap the wrong harvest. 🌾That’s not shame. That’s systems.I invested heavily in build...
02/21/2026

💌 A Letter from Susan

Wrong choices reap the wrong harvest. 🌾
That’s not shame. That’s systems.

I invested heavily in building interns.
For years, it worked and still does inside SBCS and in the larger community - one fruitful 🍓 example Brittany Spencer

During the deep Covid years, something shifted.

School overwhelm.
Client mismanagement.
Time issues.
Communication breakdowns.
Projection under pressure.

The cultural nervous system was dysregulated. Training amplified it 🌪️

The system I built from 2015 to 2020 performed above standard. But I did not yet have enough layered supervision beyond me to catch certain patterns early.

That’s on me.

One of the greatest risks in clinicians, if not addressed early, is .

I know this personally. I am committed to SELF led excavation. Leadership exposed hidden layers. Growth spirals. Chemo is simply revealing the next one.
Therapy. Consultation. Group dynamics. Rupture and repair. BODY work. Silence. Solitute.

It all humbles me.

My partner of nearly twenty five years says people meeting me today are getting Susan 4.0 🪩🪞

Growth is not linear.
Challenging systems, with consent, exposes those who preferred who you were, cannot sit in discomfort, or refuse to face themselves.

Nothing saddens me more than mentoring a budding therapist then encountering unexamined blind spots, omissions, or misrepresentation. In one case, even a licensing board report, which I will address THIS later 🔥 🐍🐴

Honest conversations matter.
Rupture and repair matter.
A deep understanding of SELF matters.

At my core, I supervise shadow work.

Blind spots migrate.
From family systems into work systems.
If unattended, they fracture teams.

My strongest supervision outcomes have landed in relationship work + s*xual health. That is where depth meets containment. 🔥

Brilliance does not sustain a clinician.

Steadiness does. 🧭

In this season, focused development of licensed clinicians feels wiser than building from the ground up.

We are recalibrating.

Our team needs a Clinical Director.

From data.
From experience.
From earned clarity.

Before April 1, 2026, important structural steps will be in motion.

If these ideas 💡 land as intended, this will be some of our strongest work yet within SBCS.

Deepening the SELF inside our work family home 🏡
Strengthening the SBCS collective 🤍
Expanding intentional 1 to 1 and small group work within a system that has supported for over eleven years.

This is not expansion.

It is an intentional narrowing that began in 2022 to blaze a clear path toward 2027 🔥

It is refinement. 🔎
And it is necessary.

Susan Morgan Stork
Founder, Space Between Counseling Services

Linner at The Third Table 🌿🍲🪑Linner is what happens in the in between.Not quite lunch.Not yet dinner.Not fully work.Not ...
02/20/2026

Linner at The Third Table 🌿🍲🪑

Linner is what happens in the in between.

Not quite lunch.
Not yet dinner.
Not fully work.
Not yet home.

It lives in that 2 to 4 pm Wednesday hour when the nervous system begins to shift. The day has happened. The evening has not begun. 🌗

The Third Table is the community’s table.
Not your desk.
Not your kitchen.

It is the rotating table of clinicians who need somewhere to metabolize modern life together.

Linner is the meal.
The Third Table is the container.

Together they create a third zone. ✨

We will gather the last Wednesday of each month, March through October, 2 to 4 pm. Hosted by SBCS to begin and rotating through participating community offices. 🏢🍽️

There is no cost.

To participate you simply need to be part of the community, bring food, and be willing to rotate office spaces.

If you feel shy about your office or are not ready for that unveiling yet, we will work with you.
Support matters.
Participation matters.
We do want everyone involved over time. 🤍

This will begin as an open invitation. Once the group establishes safety and rhythm, it will close through October.

Vent → Process → Eat → Hug → Repeat 🔁

If you want to be part of THIS founding table, share your interest in the comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️ or with

We will send more information. 📩

Because clinicians deserve aftercare too. 🌙

02/17/2026

Please accept this gift of fire. 🔥

If you’ve received matches from us in the mail (or directly from our office), you know.

They are small.
Intentional.
A quiet way of saying:

Thank you for the time you have spent in our world.
Thank you for staying in community.
Thank you for tending something with us.

Fire is not just spark.
It is witness.
It is signal.
It is warmth passed from one hand to another.

Today, February 17th, one Lunar New Year cycle closes and another begins. 🌑

Yes, the snake. Yes, the horse. Yes, the trending interpretations.

That was never our intention.

We honor the 🌙 because the moon governs tides, bodies, seasons, blood, sleep, planting, grief. Long before it was aesthetic, it was rhythm.

The snake does not try to shed.
It has already shed.

The horse does not ask permission to move.
It moves.

As we step toward spring, notice how many cultures mark this threshold in their own way. Different calendars. Same turning.

And here is my turning:

After 11 years of captaining this ship, the version of me who led it in that way has already shed.

The capacity I held.
The pace I carried.
The way I absorbed everything.

It has completed.

By the end of 2027, I will be in a different place inside this business. That decision is not reactionary. It is integrated. It is clear.

This is not a dramatic exit.
It is an evolution that has already begun.
A structure rearranging.
A torch being prepared for other hands.

Eleven years is a full cycle.
And the fire continues.

Please accept this gift of fire.
You have been part of it.
You are part of what comes next.

🔥🌕🌱
SMS

PS: I record these in one take. I noticed afterward that a little fabric from my hat made its way into the frame. I love the wabi sabi of that. The imperfect edge. The evidence of real life happening while we speak of cycles and fire.
Enjoy that, too 🍵

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Space Between Counseling Services

Susan Stork, LCPC, NCC is a Relationship Therapist + S*x Therapist + founder Space Between Counseling Services in Baltimore City, Maryland - 21201. Susan works with Type A’s + Creatives as they balance modern burdens, schedules, s*xual health concerns, stress / burnout, and the modern challenges found at times within + among modern relationships. Our Team at SBCS specializes in counseling for individuals + couples using Stan Tatkin’s PACT approach directly + in supervision.

Susan and her team of clinical associates at SBCS help their clients move through the muck of life and into deeper purpose + connection though traditional talk therapy / holding space, Brainspotting, s*x therapy, and experiential couples + family work (90 + minutes).

SBCS TEAM

Noelle Benach, LCPC - Individual + Couples + Family