Meet our Founder
Kathryn Schiff
Kathryn Schiff is an Intuitive Healer, Spiritual Teacher, Psychic Guide, and the Founder of Ground & Gold, a platform devoted to making intuitive healing grounded, practical, and accessible in everyday life.
She teaches intuition as a natural human capacity — something often understood as mystical, yet profoundly practical and accessible for anyone to develop.
Since 2009, she has taught intuitive and energetic healing practices to students and practitioners around the world, helping people develop clarity, self-trust, and the ability to work consciously with their own energy.
Her work is rooted in the belief that intuition is not mysterious or reserved for a few. It is a practical human capacity that can be learned, practiced, and integrated into everyday life.
A Grounded Approach to Intuition
Ground & Gold was created to offer a clear and steady approach to intuitive development.
The work focuses on grounding energy, strengthening discernment, and learning how to consciously enter and exit intuitive perception. Students develop tools they can apply directly in their daily lives, whether navigating relationships, work, creativity, personal growth, or healing.
This approach emphasizes neutrality, responsibility, and personal agency rather than dependence on external authority.
It is not about becoming more sensitive or overwhelmed.
It is about becoming more clear, steady, and self-trusting.
Early Life, Career & Exploration
Kathryn Schiff was born and raised in Dallas and studied philosophy in Virginia and Paris. Before building a career in the creative industry, she traveled extensively, always drawn to questions of perception, meaning, and consciousness.
She spent much of her early adult life in San Francisco, where she co-founded the commercial photography agency Tidepool Reps alongside creative partner Brooke Embry.
Today, Brooke continues to lead and expand that work through BEAM Artists, a creative artist management company representing photographers and motion artists.
“Intuition is not something reserved for a few. It is a natural human capacity that becomes clearer, steadier, and more trustworthy with practice.”
“You don’t learn about intuition, you practice it.”
“The intention behind this work is simple: helping people reconnect with their own intuitive awareness and live from it with steadiness and trust.”
A Turning Point
At the same time, several personal relationships, work and life circumstances were reaching major crossroads. Together they created what Kathryn often describes as a “perfect storm,” a time that compelled her to face deeper reflection and change. Like many people, Kathryn reached a point where patterns of burnout, emotional and physical reactivity, and over-responsibility in her life could no longer be ignored.
She stepped away from familiar structures and traveled to Buenos Aires, creating physical and emotional distance from both work and personal dynamics. In that space of separation, something unexpected began to unfold. Her intuitive awareness turned on in a way she had never consciously experienced before.
What began as curiosity soon became a deep exploration of perception, consciousness, and energy, a path that would ultimately reshape both her life and her work.
Buenos Aires Awakening
During her extended stay in Buenos Aires, something shifted in Kathryn’s intuitive awareness.
She began noticing patterns and signals in her perception that many might dismiss as coincidence, but that felt deeply personal and unmistakable. During this time she also began experiencing prophetic dreams.
The more she allowed herself to observe and trust these experiences, the more clearly they appeared.
This period of awakening eventually led her to Santa Fe, where she felt an immediate sense of connection and calm that encouraged her to stay. What began as a visit quickly turned into a move.
Santa Fe Training
In Santa Fe, Kathryn encountered clairvoyant meditation and began formal training in intuitive perception and energy awareness.
Within her first few weeks there, she found herself in a meditation class in which something clicked. It felt like discovering a language she somehow already knew.
She didn’t fully understand what was happening, but she knew she wanted more. She enrolled in classes immediately and continued studying, eventually entering the training programs she now teaches.
Kathryn developed her intuitive abilities — working with the sixth chakra and learning to read and work with energy in a grounded and conscious way. This modality fundamentally changed how she related to energy, perception, and healing.
She trained extensively in clairvoyant meditation and intuitive healing under respected mentor Juli Somers, becoming a clairvoyant reader, energy healer, intuitive development teacher, and spiritual minister. She later taught at established centers such as Intuitive Insights under the mentorship of Vessa Rinehart.
Through years of teaching and practice, Kathryn developed an approach that makes intuitive perception accessible, grounded, embodied, and repeatable.
At a time when much intuitive work was often framed as mysterious or reserved for a few, she focused on helping people understand intuition as a skill that can be practiced, strengthened, and integrated into everyday life.
Her teaching emphasizes energetic clarity, conscious entry and exit of intuitive space, and personal responsibility in working with perception.
Students learn not only how to access intuitive awareness, but how to remain neutral, steady, and discerning while doing so.
Through this work she has helped students and practitioners develop lasting confidence in their intuitive abilities.
The School of Intuitive Greater Healing
As her teaching expanded, Kathryn founded the School of Intuitive Greater Healing (SIGH), where she trained practitioners in intuitive and energetic healing practices.
Students from around the world studied through the SIGH curriculum, developing practical tools for intuitive perception, healing work, and personal transformation. Many practitioners working today were originally trained through this lineage.
SIGH became the foundation for the larger vision that would eventually evolve into Ground & Gold.
The Evolution of Ground & Gold
Ground & Gold grew from this earlier work and expanded during the pandemic, when Kathryn recognized the need for a shared space where people could access experiential intuitive training and ongoing practice.
As interest or demand in this work expanded, Kathryn eventually reached her personal capacity for private sessions and teaching. Rather than limiting access, she envisioned a larger platform where the practitioners she had trained could also share their work.
Today the platform offers classes, series, workshops, programs, and practitioner certification pathways that help students develop intuitive awareness in a grounded and practical way.
The community includes both individuals beginning their intuitive journey and experienced practitioners seeking to refine their skills, deepen their authority, and work with energy in an ethical and sustainable way, while supporting a growing community of practitioners who share and teach this work.
Professional Experience
Kathryn has taught classes and worked with private clients globally, trained practitioners at all stages of experience, and has served as a resident teacher at The DEN Meditation Center in Los Angeles since 2016.
Her work supports both individuals beginning their intuitive journey and experienced practitioners, psychic and healers seeking deeper mastery of their intuitive and energetic practices.
Her Intention
At the heart of Kathryn’s work is a simple intention:
To help people reconnect with their own intuitive awareness and learn how to live from it with steadiness and trust.
Through Ground & Gold, she continues to teach, mentor practitioners, and cultivate a living space where intuition can be explored, practiced, and integrated into real life within a supportive community.