Phoebe St John Mosse

Role

Psychologist

Operations Manager

Qualifications

Bachelor of Behavioural Science with Honours in Psychology

Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (member)

Summary

Phoebe is an experienced psychologist at Ability who brings a warm, person-centred approach to her work with individuals and families. With broad experience across clinical settings, including schools, assessment-focused services, private practice, and disability, Phoebe supports clients across all ages and stages of life.

Phoebe draws on a range of therapeutic frameworks to provide flexible and responsive care tailored to each client’s unique needs and goals. Phoebe incorporates person-focused, transformative, evidence-based models of psychotherapy into her clinical practice. She places a strong emphasis on building a safe and collaborative therapeutic relationship, recognising the importance of trust, respect, and empathy in supporting meaningful change. Her practice is grounded in trauma-informed, attachment-aware, and strengths-based principles, and she is passionate about helping clients enhance their emotional wellbeing and overall quality of life.

Phoebe holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours and has engaged in ongoing professional development, training, and extensive supervision aligned with her clinical practice and interests. She values evidence-based practice and takes care to ensure her work is guided by current research and best-practice approaches.

Outside of her clinical work, Phoebe enjoys spending quality time with her loved ones (including her much-adored cat), exploring nature, and challenging herself with functional fitness training.

Areas of Support

Broadly speaking, psychologists are trained to work with a variety of psychological conditions and the factors that inform this. When working with a client, a part of the psychologist's role is evaluating their suitability for a client's identified support need/s. Where another clinician may be better suited to support the client, a psychologist will discuss any recommendations for on-referral with the client. 
Phoebe regularly works with clients who are experiencing a range of clinical concerns and /or support needs. Examples of this include, but are not limited to:

• Mood (e.g., adjustment, depressive, bipolar and schizoaffective disorders)
• Anxiety (e.g., generalised anxiety, separation anxiety, phobias)
• Neurodevelopmental Matters (e.g., Autism, ADHD)
• Cognition & Learning (e.g., intellectual and/or developmental concerns, learning difficulties)
• Grief, Loss & Bereavement
• Stress-Related Concerns (e.g., burnout, relationship breakdown, employment-related and/or job loss, communication skills, navigating interpersonal challenges, conflict resolution)
• Posttraumatic Stress (e.g., PTSD, acute stress)
• Personality Disorders (e.g., BPD)
• Psychotic Disorders (e.g., schizophrenia and related concerns)
• Chronic Pain & Health-Related Matters (e.g., managing wellbeing concurrent with physical conditions, pain management, sleep hygiene)
• Substance-Use & Related Concerns

Phoebe also enjoys involvement in preventative initiatives (e.g., fostering resilience and self-esteem) and draws from principles of positive psychology, resilience and mindfulness to develop the skills of the clients she works with.

Therapeutic Models & Intervention Frameworks

• CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
• DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy)
• ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
• IPT (Interpersonal Therapy)
• IFS (Internal Family Systems Informed)
• PMT (Parent-Management Training)
• SFT (Solution-Focused Therapy) & Motivational Interview
• Mindfulness & Positive Psychology
• Creative & Expressive Therapies/Approaches

Assessment Services

Psychologists are trained to assess for clinical concerns, some of which can pertain to diagnostic conditions as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition, text revision (DSM-V-TR, 2022). However some assessment queries require additional training and resources (i.e., psychometric measures) to evaluate and assess. At Ability, we have a broad range of diagnostic testing tools and measures available to evaluate many, common assessment queries. In addition to standard psychological assessment competency, Phoebe is able to provide: 

• Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD, Autism) (All Ages. Administration of Relevant Measures e.g., ADOS-2, MIGDAS-2, ADI-R, Sensory Profile, clinical observation)
• Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (All Ages. Administration of Relevant Measures e.g., Conners Scales, DIVA-5)
• Assessment of Intellectual Ability, Cognition, Executive Function and Learning (All Ages. Administration of Relevant Measures e.g.,  Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Tests of Nonverbal Intelligence, ToPF, MoCA, BRIEF-2, achievement-testing)
• Assessment of Adaptive Behaviour and Functional Capacity (All Ages. Administration of Relevant Measures e.g.,  ABAS-3, Vinelands, WHODAS 2.0)
• Assessment of Memory (All ages. WMS-IV)
• Other diagnostic evaluation of psychological concerns and/or disorders (DSM-V-TR)