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

Please read.
03/14/2026

Please read.

My bird nurse, Saffron, reporting for duty. 🐦‍⬛Today’s chemo companion.My husband also surprised me with a small portabl...
03/14/2026

My bird nurse, Saffron, reporting for duty. 🐦‍⬛

Today’s chemo companion.

My husband also surprised me with a small portable handrail. A funny little gift from the chemo chapter of life… though technically it belongs to the radical chapter when the four pound tumor had to go. 🏥

And honestly, I might never get rid of this thing.

It helps me keep my independence while also letting me be vulnerable with steady support. That combination matters more than I ever understood before. 🫂

Years ago, when I was running an in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, I wanted guests to have the best stay possible. So I invested in adjustable beds with great mattresses and vibration settings. 🛏️

Funny how life circles back 🔄🌱

During chemo I discovered the vibration setting actually calms my nervous system. It reminds me of the bilateral tappers we use in sessions. 🧠

It’s fascinating what carries across different parts of life.

A gathering space.
An Airbnb bed.
A husband of almost 22 years who brings you a portable handrail. ❤️
A fancy pigeon nurse named Saffron who shows up on the harder days. 🐦‍⬛

Today is not the worst chemo day.

But it is a steroid day.

Which means my mind is moving fast while my body refuses to cooperate. ⚡️

So today’s program:

Hang out in bed. 🛏️
Take baths. 🛁
Let the supports around me do their quiet work. 🌙

✌🏼👩‍🌾🐤

City curated over time11 years in Baltimore CitySpace Between Counseling ServicesFounder : Susan Stork 25 years living i...
03/14/2026

City curated over time

11 years in Baltimore City
Space Between Counseling Services

Founder : Susan Stork
25 years living in the city
Multiple Baltimore City buildings stewarded over the years
Still living here

10 years working in Baltimore City education
Still supporting Baltimore City Schools IRL through her son’s next visionary ideas and mentees of 14+ years.

03/14/2026

🗓️👁️‍🗨️🐦‍⬛🌲🌒

and future therapists 👀

If you are a budding therapist, or someone stepping into therapy as a second career, keep an eye on us.

March 15 a small popup will land on the website with more details about learning, mentoring, and growing inside the SBCS community.

We are neighborhood therapists doing modern relational work in the heart of the city.

If that kind of work calls to you, take a look.

www.SpaceBetweenCounselingServices.com 🐦‍⬛🌲

(And yes… the Dawn Redwood in the courtyard approves.)

Our Hamilton backyard had landscaping done last year in hopes of creating a place for spring breaks and quiet reflection...
03/13/2026

Our Hamilton backyard had landscaping done last year in hopes of creating a place for spring breaks and quiet reflection after the many seasons of work that came before it.

Not a grand garden.
More of a pause.

The house itself dates back to 1809, and some of the soil likely remembers that time too. Two centuries of footsteps, storms, roots, and human lives moving through the same patch of ground.

Gardens like this are never really new.

They are continuations.

This week the showed up.

Right on time and completely on its own schedule.

Blooming low to the ground, facing the soil as if it is still listening to the while the rest of us are already dreaming of spring.

It feels fitting.

Last year was a year of deep labor. Building. Repairing. Reimagining space. The kind of work that is mostly invisible while it is happening.

🕳️ Very underworld work.

And then these small flowers appear. Quiet. Steady. Almost ancient in their timing.

A reminder that long before us, and long after us, the soil keeps its cycles cycle 🔄

Sometimes the first sign that things are turning again is not loud.

Just a hellebore blooming out of 200 year old ground. 🌸

🌸 Special thanks to N***y for helping me hold the vision for this little pocket of land, and for hopefully name dropping the landscaper in the comments so our Baltimore community can support the hands that helped bring it to life.

03/13/2026

This week I saved my energy for something different. Not work. Not productivity. Community.

I invited two incredible therapists in their 30s to join me at Spa World in Centreville.

Women I’ve been orbiting professionally for years. Different roles, different seasons, same constellation. ✨

One organized.
One showed up.
Both matter.

I actually learned about Spa World from clients. Thank you 🙏🏼

At least five mentioned it in totally different contexts. When I hear the same resource across multiple lives, I pay attention. Patterns are data. I investigate… then share back with the community.

Two of us had 2 hours of car time each way 🚗
A true 1:1 container. No agenda. No session clock. Just real conversation. The drive home was even longer thanks to a snowstorm that rolled in between the rain and our facials. ❄️

Walking into a Korean spa while in chemo is its own initiation.
Bold chemo head.
12 inch abdominal scar.

And the unexpected gift of the space:

No phones 📵
No cameras
No performing

Just bodies being bodies. Women of every age simply existing in their skin. My bald head and scar just part of the human landscape.

For a few hours I wasn’t the therapist, a parent, or the business owner.

Just a human in warm water with two women who have been circling my orbit for years.

Strangely freeing.
Deeply needed. 🤍
Thank you, 💦🌊🛁⛲️

Chemo cycle 3Today’s cocktailSteroidsBenadrylwith a dash of acid refluxto buffer the side effects.Paired withtree fungus...
03/13/2026

Chemo cycle 3

Today’s cocktail
Steroids
Benadryl
with a dash of acid reflux
to buffer the side effects.

Paired with
tree fungus Taxol
and platinum Carbo.

Nature and metal
teaming up in a strange little war
inside my body.

It is wild to think
the things trying to save you
sound a lot like the things
that could kill you.

Meanwhile, my husband of many moons
almost 22 years married
and about 25 years of building together

is strapping on my Suzzipad cold gloves and foot wraps
to try and protect my fingers and toes
from the neuropathy that can show up in a few days.

Not glamorous.
Not romantic in the movie sense.

But deeply .

Ice packs.
Patience.
Steady hands.

The quiet things we do
in love
in partnership
in care.

A very exclusive menu
served only to people
who never asked for the reservation. 🤍

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 #

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16 W. Hamilton Street
Baltimore, MD
21201

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Tuesday 7am - 9pm
Wednesday 7am - 9pm
Thursday 7am - 9pm
Friday 7am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 8pm
Sunday 8am - 8pm

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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