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The Pathfinder Men's Therapy Team

A small, specialized team of clinicians serving men, couples and high-performers in Calgary and online across the prairies.

Pathfinder is a small, deliberately built practice. We are not a referral list and we are not a directory. Every clinician on this team works inside the same frame, the same named thinkers, the same tone, the same standard for honesty, and every clinician was chosen for fit with the people we serve, not for availability.


When you book a free consult, a human reads it and matches you with the clinician most likely to do the actual work for what you are dealing with. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.

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From the Founder

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I built Pathfinder because the therapy I needed, when I needed it, was hard to find — direct without being cold, serious about the big questions without being precious about them, practical without turning into a wellness product. I wanted a room where meaning, mortality, freedom, and responsibility could sit on the table as ordinary clinical material, right alongside sleep, work, and the people you go home to.

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I named it Pathfinder for a reason. I've always done my clearest thinking in the mountains, above the treeline, where the noise drops away and the terrain demands your full attention. That's what I want this work to do — not hand you a map someone else drew, but help you read the terrain of your own life clearly enough to find a path that's actually yours.

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Pathfinder outgrew a single caseload, so I'm building a team carefully. Every clinician here works inside the same frame — Yalom in how we sit with what can't be fixed, Frankl in how we treat meaning as a resource rather than a slogan, Aurelius in the discipline we bring to what is and isn't ours to carry. The accent changes from clinician to clinician. The frame does not.

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— Ryan Filax-Wylie, CCC, MACP · Founder & Clinical Director

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Ryan Filax-Wylie

Founder & Clinical Director | Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), MACP

Existential therapy for adults asking the bigger questions

Existential, trauma-informed therapy for men, couples, and high-performers. Specializes in anger and emotional regulation, executive burnout, neurodivergence (ADHD and autism), complex trauma, and the Pathfinder Executive Intensive.

780-399-2859

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Chanelle Gagne

Pathfinder Clinician | RSW

​Trauma-informed therapist for women navigating the in-between

Trauma-informed therapy for women, men, and couples navigating the in-between — burnout, anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, and the patterns underneath them. Warm, grounded, and rigorous. Trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, CBT, and Narrative Therapy. Eight-plus years of clinical experience.

587-804-7151

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Kia Bhaidani, RSW

Pathfinder Clinician · Registered Social Worker (RSW). I help women and men in threshold seasons — anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, burnout, and overwhelm — find their way back to themselves using EFT, IFS, and a warm, collaborative, at-your-pace approach. $190 per 50-minute session · Online across Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba · In-person in NW Calgary.

Chanelle Gagne, RSW, trauma-informed therapist at Pathfinder Therapy in Calgary
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Clarity in the chaos.
We work where the practical meets the philosophical  because most of what brings people in lives in both

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Phone: +1-780-399-2859  |  In-Person at #205, 2120 Kensington Road NW, Calgary, AB T2N 3R7  |  Online across AB, SK & MB

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