The Traveling Therapist Podcast · Kym Tolson

208. Moving My Therapy Business and Family to Spain with Tiffany Castellanos

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Your new life will cost you your old one

Kim and Tiffany talk about a family move to Spain. The conversation quickly moves past the romance of living abroad and into the work of making it function, including residency, daily routines, and what changes when a therapist's whole household crosses an ocean. Her son is still adjusting. He started in a Spanish school, and the first six months were difficult because he was learning in a language he did not yet fully understand, but the challenge also seems to have brought something out in him. That matters. Tiffany describes him as the kind of kid who rises to a challenge, and the move seems to have given him exactly the stretch he needed to settle in. The residency path is a major part of the story. She explains that the family's golden visa route gave them permanent residency quickly, and that they will be eligible to apply for citizenship this year. That would matter most for her son. Once he has EU citizenship, he can apply to universities across Europe, and many of those schools are free, which opens up options that simply would not exist otherwise. The business side stays close throughout. Kim keeps asking the kinds of questions that turn a life-change story into something other therapists can actually use, especially around how to keep working while the family is relocating. The show stays grounded. One of the easiest details to picture is the phone setup: Tiffany kept her American phone, cut the old line, and switched to a Google Voice number to keep things manageable. That small fix says a lot. The episode keeps returning to the same point: big freedom comes with a stack of ordinary decisions. School choice, phone logistics, residency paperwork, and future university options all sit next to the emotional side of starting over. Nothing is treated as glamorous. The appeal is in the lived texture, where a move to Spain still means boundaries, systems, and adaptation. By the end, the conversation feels less like a travel fantasy and more like a workable model for building a more flexible life without pretending it is easy.

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An overseas move becomes a grounded lesson in residency, schooling, and flexible work.

The episode stays strongest when it leans on the practical side of moving abroad: residency, school, and the small systems that keep work reachable across borders.

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