Skip to content Skip to footer

Welcome To Blu Ripples

Discover Blu Ripples® (pronounced Blue Ripples), a specialist Career Counselling and Career Consulting practice in Port Stephens, NSW. Our aim is to meaningfully empower and assist you on your journey by helping you embrace, navigate and achieve your attainable goals.

Whether you are starting out on your career exploration journey, transitioning to a new career, position, or company, or seeking insights into your key transferable skills, labour market information or job-search strategy, we are here to help you throughout your career exploration and decision-making journey.

Envision, for one moment, the opportunity to escape the demands of daily life and engage a professional working-from-home career practice, nestled on 2 acres of land surrounded by nature’s beauty in the beautiful Port Stephens. Here you can breathe, contemplate and investigate your career interest, options and pathways; identify key transferable skills; prepare your employment documentation; and establish meaningful career strategies, career goals and action plans. Consider how such an experience would feel for you.

Our inviting and supportive environment, coupled with our comprehensive and personalised service range including career counsellingcareer consulting including resume writing servicescareer planning and reportingacademic planning, psychometric profilingkey transferable skills analysis, and outplacement services and our unique approach has been designed to help you make informed, meaningful, and realistic decisions about your career and educational journey.   

To support your career journey, we also offer self-care resources, self-care sessions, and personal counselling services to help you manage everyday concerns, stress, and change during your career exploration, career transition, job search, work and everyday life.  

To explore our eight key services further, please click the read more arrows below to see how we can support you.

Our Specialist Services

Complementing Our Specialist Services

We proudly offer the following services to support our clients on their individual journey:

Katherine Foster Career Development Specialist Counsellor and Published Self Care Author

Katherine is a nationally registered Career Development Specialist (CDAA),  Counsellor (ACA) and published Self-Care Author who, as a result of confronting and transitioning through many of life’s ripples, is committed to supporting clients through similar periods.  Higher Tertiary Educators have praised her ability to apply practical experience to theoretical and innovative concepts, as well as her research, analysis and reporting skills whilst maintaining a humble persona.  Clients and mentors describe Katherine as an inspiring, down-to-earth, knowledgeable and empathetic facilitator who listens, connects, extends oneself, and walks beside her clients whilst they are on their career journey with her.

For Katherine’s complete profile, click the link button below:-

Katherine Foster Founder of Blu Ripples has been accepted as a student member of ASORC while studying her Master Rehabilitation Counselling Degree at Griffith University

Our Service Location and Range

Commencing in Sydney and relocating to Medowie in 2012, Blu Ripples has served clients locally and beyond. Clients have travelled from near and far to use our career counselling, career consulting, and personal counselling services with many referring  loved ones to us. Our reach extends from Medowie to various Port Stephens locations including Nelson Bay, Salamander Bay, Anna Bay, Raymond Terrace, Fern Bay, One Mile, Shoal Bay, Tanilba Bay; Dungog Shire including Clarence Town; Newcastle including Belmont, Beresfield, Black Hill, Broadmedow, Callaghan, Carrington, Fletcher, Hamilton, Islington, Kotara, Mayfield, New Lambton, Stockton, Waratah West; Upper and Lower Hunter including Aberdare, Cessnock, Chisholm, Green Hills, Maitland, Muswellbrook, Rutherford, Singleton, Thornton, Wattle Ponds;  Lake Macquarie including Belmont, Cardiff, Charlestown, Croudace Bay,  Hillsborough, Mount Hutton, Rathmines; Central Coast including Gosford, Ourimba, Umina Beach and Wyong; Sydney CBD and Metropolitan area including Hills District, Hornsby Shire, Castle Hill, Kings Langley, Parramatta, Picnic Point, Ryde, West Pennant Hills, Wollstoncraft; Mid North Coast including Hawks Nest, Forster, Tuncurry, Karuah, Port Macquarie, Kempsey and further afield to Blue Mountains, Dubbo, Southern Highlands, Queensland, Canberra, Northern Territory, South Australia, Kingston (Tasmania), and Victoria.  

Verified by MonsterInsights