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 li

fe --> 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

There’s something about old houses… 🏛️especially one built in 1809…that refuses to let you disappear inside your own dar...
04/17/2026

There’s something about old houses… 🏛️
especially one built in 1809…
that refuses to let you disappear inside your own darkness.

In chemo 3, I went under.
Quietly. Disorienting.

Now, somewhere between chemo 4 and 5,
I can feel the return.
Not fully.
But enough.

Enough to choose where my energy goes ⚡️🪃

And maybe…
a reminder that time ⏰ is not as linear as we think.

Five or six weeks ago,
a visitor showed up at my door. 🚪

An American woodcock - I wrote about it.

Grounded. Unusual. Passing through.

I remember thinking…
you are not lost.

You are on a migration path. 🪶

Trying to make your way to the back of this property…
to land that has been held for over 200 years,
rich with life beneath the surface. 🪱

Historic visit meets modern visit.

And here I am too…
finding my way back.
——————————-

For a long time, my energy has gone to people.
Holding. Witnessing. Building. 🧠✨

But recently…
I’m choosing differently.

I’m putting energy into the house. 🗝️

————————-

Enter Jermaine.
Second generation woodworker. 🪵

He has been in this house before…
working alongside his father, years ago.

And just weeks before we met,
he was at the Florida Aquarium… 🌊
where my father in law once served as CEO
before he passed in 2017.

For my husband and I, that landed.
Not coincidence. Something else.

A reminder that we are souls meant to cross. ✨

For 3.5-ish weeks, we’ve been in collaboration - on the timing of this mission.

I didn’t do the work. He and his teammate did.
But I let him into the bones of this place.

And now…
the fourth floor is coming alive. ✨

I’ve done this before.

In 2020, during COVID,
we sold our family home and downsized.
Before finding what was next…
I poured everything into a cabin in Berkeley Springs. 🌲

👇 more in comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️

31 hours. ⏳That’s it.In 31 hours, we close hiring under my careand we are not reopening it again in this form.If you are...
04/13/2026

31 hours. ⏳

That’s it.

In 31 hours, we close hiring under my care
and we are not reopening it again in this form.

If you are in grad school right now
especially in your final stretch…

pay attention.

Timing matters more than perfection.

If you’ve been watching, thinking, circling—
this is your moment.

Apply.

31 hours. Then we shut it down. 🔒

Susan
🪩🗝️💣🐅

👇 Details in comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Seven years.That’s how long I’ve known Christopher We met in 2019 at University of Michigan… thinking we were there for ...
04/11/2026

Seven years.

That’s how long I’ve known Christopher

We met in 2019 at University of Michigan… thinking we were there for training, credentials, the next level of the work. And we were. But something else was happening too.

Four of us local Baltimore small business therapists traveled there together. A small cohort. A moment in time that was supposed to become a lifetime of connection. Some threads held. Some released.

But Christopher… he stayed. 🧶

Not in proximity.
Not in frequency.
But in continuity.

Our friendship didn’t begin at Michigan. It revealed itself there… and kept unfolding across cities and seasons, across long hours of depth work.

New York City.
Tucson.
Michigan.

Rooms where time stretched.
Group supervision that asked more of us than we knew how to give… until we did.

This is the kind of work that shapes you into a s*x therapist through contact, through exposure, through staying.

Berkeley 🌉 → Baltimore 🏙️
Different landscapes. Same language underneath it all. 🌍

And what this photo doesn’t say… (September 2025)

is that five minutes before it was taken, a person approached us. Something in the tone, the energy… it didn’t feel right. I had a strong sense we were about to be put on the spot in a very unfortunate situation.

I locked eyes, held my ground, and said, “no.”

And just like that… it passed.

Strange. Fast. Real.

Not alone.
Witnessed.
Shared.

We may not all stay connected the way we imagined…
but I got Christopher out of it.

And that feels like a lifetime return on a single moment in time. 🖤

Can’t wait to see you next month with Abby and Esther in New York. 🗽

*xwillchangetheworld

There is a certain kind of seeing that only happens when you are stilled by a window 🪟Not scrollingNot producingJust… lo...
04/10/2026

There is a certain kind of seeing that only happens when you are stilled by a window 🪟

Not scrolling
Not producing
Just… looking 👁️

This house, 16 West Hamilton, has been here since 1809
Built by Robert Cary Long Sr., who imagined permanence in a city that was still becoming itself 🏛️

You can feel that when you stand here
Not history as fact… but history as atmosphere 🌫️

And then the window opens you

Three trees 🌲🎴🌿
Three orientations to living

The dawn redwood…
older than it should be, almost misplaced in time ⏳
It drops the smallest cones, like messages you could miss if you were moving too fast 🌰

There is something archetypal in it… something ancient, something that does not rush 🌀

It reminds me that scale is deceptive
Power does not always arrive loudly

Also… it will cost me if something goes wrong 💸
Which feels like the shadow side of beauty
Devotion has a price 🖤

The white dogwood…
shared
Not mine
Not theirs
Ours 🤝
A boundary that is not rigid, but relational
A quiet agreement that some things are meant to be held between people, not by them

The magnolia…
fully in view, fully enjoyed, and not my responsibility 🌸
A small, almost subversive permission
to receive without tending

From this window, the psyche rearranges itself a bit 🧠

What is mine to hold
What is mine to share
What is mine to witness without claiming

There is something Jung might call the Self in this 🌀
not as an idea, but as a pattern
An organizing principle that shows up in trees, in houses, in timing

Didion once wrote about how we tell ourselves stories in order to live 📖
Lately, I am less interested in the story
and more interested in the noticing

This house has outlived certainty
These trees have outlived urgency 🌿

And I am here
somewhere in between
learning how to look long enough
for meaning to find me 👁️‍🗨️✨

We’re hiring, but time is running out. ⏳High-functioning. High-load. Real life. ⚡️🧠🌍15+ years in the work… refining, rec...
04/04/2026

We’re hiring, but time is running out. ⏳

High-functioning. High-load. Real life. ⚡️🧠🌍

15+ years in the work… refining, recalibrating, staying relational. (2nd career therapist)

Clients. Couples. Families. Systems.
The ecosystems that hold it all.

11 years building Space Between Counseling Services from the ground up… not just a business, but a living, breathing relational therapy ecosystem. 🌱🏙️

We are neighborhood therapists.
We support the movers and shapers of our communities…
and we train clinicians who can actually hold that level of complexity.

Our clients reflect that level:
⚖️ Lawyers
🧪 Epidemiologists
🩺 Nurses across all levels, from LPN to PhD
🎓 PhDs across disciplines, including institutions of learning and writing
🎨 Professional artist and budding ones 🖌️
✍️ Writers with Wikipedia pages
🏫 High-level university staff
💻 Software engineers + multiple types of engineers
🏛️ Federal and state government professionals… some at levels where we do not even fully know what they do
✈️ Commercial pilots and aviation families, holding the unique rhythms, absences, time zones, and relational strain that comes with that life

And also…

🌈 S*x workers and healers alike
🖤 Members of s*xual minority populations
⛓️ B**M and kink communities
🤍 And as vanilla as you can be

We hold a full spectrum of the human experience.

People who think for a living.

And often…
have lost access to their bodies, their relationships, or both.

Brilliant in thought, or in creating
but hitting edges in relational systems…

struggling to see their own blind spots
without skilled, attuned guidance to help illuminate them.

That is the work you are stepping into if
You apply with SBCS.

⸻

Along the way…

By staying in rooms most people exit,
by tracking what others miss,
by holding tension instead of relieving it too fast…

✨ We have trained and launched some of the brightest s*x and relational therapists in Maryland.

Not because it’s trendy.
Not because it’s easy.

Because we do not look away.

We train clinicians to sit in complexity,
to tolerate discomfort,
to see the system, not just the symptom.

🧩 Depth over performance
💫 Substance over speed

And we hold that same level of expectation inside our own team.

⸻

And now…

This is MY final hiring cohort.

Training and supervision led by Abby Smith 🎓

Mentorship will be assigned based on:
your interests
your specialty
your availability

You may work with Daniya, Kat… or directly with me.
We are building this in real time.
Thoughtfully. Experimentally. Relationally. 🧩

Not replicas.
Not extensions.
Your own voice. Your own way. 🎯

Grounded in a deeply defined style,
with hard-earned lessons integrated as your roadmap.

⸻

📣 Timing matters.

We already have 3 interviews scheduled.

Submit your phone call + video by 4/15
Interviews run 4/15 – 5/1

2–4 spots.

⸻

How we build clinicians:

🚫 No burnout volume model
🎯 Real caseload building
⚠️ Not for surface-level work

📖 Intentional pacing
🤝 Relational accountability

⸻

Behind the scenes:

🧘‍♀️ Session caps with intention
⏳ Time respected
💬 Human conversations, not hierarchy

💳 HSA + FSA integration
🧠 Out-of-network strategy
🔄 Practice not controlled by insurance

Because depth without sustainability burns out fast. 🔥➡️🕊️

⸻

High-capacity clinicians.
Complex humans.
Work that actually meets both. ✨

⸻

Not your first step.
A defining one. 🎯

⸻

If this is landing for you… 🛬

Schedule your phone call ☎️ with N***y to get more information.

Start Here ➡️ Follow the POP UP.

https://www.spacebetweencounselingservices.com/

Photos ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Abby Smith (now in year 7, started as an LG) ✨
with Susan Stork (founder and lead therapist for 11 years 🏙️) ready to turn the wheel over to the next generations 🔄 and step into a crone sage role for guidance 🫂🌒

CA 125 Testing via bloodwork 🩸💉A number I did not expect to know this intimately.📊 Normal Range 0-35 - my oncology nurse...
04/03/2026

CA 125 Testing via bloodwork 🩸💉
A number I did not expect to know this intimately.

📊 Normal Range 0-35 - my oncology nurse stated today she has never seen a ZERO.

Not the whole story,
but a marker that tracks patterns over time.

Used in ovarian, endometrial, and endometrioid adenocarcinoma cancer care,
not diagnostic on its own,
but part of the conversation.

Here is how it has spoken in my body:

190
Before I knew the tumor held cancer,
there were 4 pounds of it sitting on my left o***y.
How long.. don’t fully know.

The same o***y I had checked at 35.
The same o***y I could feel, month after month.
Every menstrual cycle.
Every ovulation.

My body was talking.
I just did not yet have the language for what it was saying.

And I cannot help but wonder
if when my perimenopausal symptoms began, then
something in my genetic landscape shifted.

Something that had been quiet
no longer was.

97
after my radical hysterectomy at 46 (more in this later) and debulking.

Debulking included removing my omentum and four lymph nodes,
all negative for cancer,
but not without cost.
It comes with a higher risk of
(more on that later).

At the time of surgery,
I did not yet know I had
But I had enough anecdotal + familial evidence on my mother’s side
to know keeping my ovaries did not feel like the right choice.

Later, I blood tested positive for Lynch syndrome.
My surgical tissue, however, tested negative.

Medicine + intuition in conversation working together.

☠️Chemo enters: CA 125 numbers

12 after chemo 1
8.9 after chemo 2
7.5 after chemo 3

A downward rhythm.
A body responding.

🧠 What I am learning:

Numbers are not certainty.
They are trends.
One piece of a much larger landscape.

Scans, symptoms, intuition, and team
all matter.

Numbers intrigue me…
Apparently, I am now someone who casually tracks decimals like it is a personality trait.

I love a plot twist 🌪️

Still here.
Still watching the numbers.

🫂🌒🐦‍⬛
SMS

⏳ 14 days.That’s what’s left to click the link and decide: are you going to do therapy the deep way… or the fast way?If ...
04/01/2026

⏳ 14 days.

That’s what’s left to click the link and decide: are you going to do therapy the deep way… or the fast way?

If you are a newly graduating LG
(first career, second career, third life awakening… all welcome ✨),
this is your window.

At Space Between Counseling Services, we built a 3 year fellowship for clinicians who don’t just want a job… they want a practice, a voice, and a backbone.

This is not agency pace.
This is distillery work. 🥃🔥

✨ Year 1: Foundation
Learn how to actually be with people,
not just document them.
Individual and group supervision 🧠
Mentorship 🤝
Retreats 🌲
Real training in ethics, notes, risk, telehealth, and alliance building

✨ Year 2: Diversity + Wellness
Dismantling oppression
Intersectionality lived, not just labeled
Burnout prevention that actually works 🫀
Community and team building 👥

✨ Year 3: Specialization
Choose your lane:
S*xual health work ❤️
Couples and relationship work 💞
OCD
Sand tray and play therapy 🧸
Advanced training and retreats ✈️
You become known for something

✨ Throughout:
You are not alone 🤍
You are not guessing.
You are not breaking quietly in a corner.

We catch things early.
We name patterns.
We work with your shadow (yes, really 🌘).
We build clinicians who can sustain a career, not just survive one.

💰 Early salary support (3 months, then evaluated as needed)
🧾 Opportunities for admin work while waiting for LG approval
🩺 Contributions to insurance for full time clinicians
🧠 Deep supervision ecosystem
🌆 Baltimore rooted, community built
👥 Small cohort (2 to 4 people… this is intentional)

📊 And… we have the data:
11 years of building this in real time.
We have taken LGs from less than $20,000 a year to more than $200,000 a year inside a group practice when they follow the mentorship.

⚠️ Real talk:
We already have 3 strong candidates lined up for interviews.
We are only bringing in 2 to 4.

This is for the ones who feel it:

“I don’t want to burn out in 2 years.” 😮‍💨
“I want to actually get good at this.” 🔥
“I want to build something that lasts.” 🏗️
“I want a strong foundation so I don’t have to depend on third party insurance for the rest of my life.”
“I don’t want my specialty dictated by insurance payments.”
“I need flexibility, whether for chronic illness or life, and still want to grow.” 🤍

If that’s you… we have flex for you.

⏳ 14 days left.
Click the link.
Read it twice.
Then decide if you’re ready to be forged. 🔥⚒️

https://www.spacebetweencounselingservices.com/

*xTherapy

The “sandwich generation” is about to become a triple decker reality 🥪Kids.Parents.Grandparents.All needing care, at the...
03/31/2026

The “sandwich generation” is about to become a triple decker reality 🥪

Kids.
Parents.
Grandparents.

All needing care, at the same time.

And we are asking humans to hold this inside of a healthcare system that is already tired… and a culture that still whispers,
“you should be able to handle it.”

No.

This is not a personal failure.
This is a systems strain.

👀👀👀
In the therapy room, I am already seeing it.

Couples + Families stretched thin.
Adult children becoming caregivers overnight.
Grief that has no clean ending.
Love and resentment sitting in the same chair.

And underneath it all… one quiet question:

➡️ Where do I exist in my own life?

We built a world that rewards .
But life is asking for interdependence 🎉🔑💌

We were never meant to do this alone.

So if you are in it,
or about to be in it,

You are not behind.
You are not failing.
You are inside of a moment that requires more support than most of us were ever taught to ask for.

🫂

03/26/2026

Blooms 🌸, Spring Feels 💨, Historic Holding Spot 🪟, and Moonshine 🌒

Spring Cleaning 🧹 💨🪟👁️‍🗨️
03/23/2026

Spring Cleaning 🧹 💨🪟👁️‍🗨️

Highlight of my DAY : This is a bird that: • survives by blending, not shining • navigates by feel, not force • appear...
03/21/2026

Highlight of my DAY :

This is a bird that:
• survives by blending, not shining
• navigates by feel, not force
• appears briefly, then moves on
• lives between hidden + visible worlds

And biologically speaking…
it was exactly doing what it’s supposed to do:

➡️ migrating
➡️ pausing
➡️ using whatever patch of ground is available
➡️ trusting its body to guide the next move

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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