Hi everyone, thank you SO much for sharing all your stories and insights.

By way of an update and also to provide another resource for anyone that might be following along, I started with a service called Wellin5, which is like a Canadian equivalent of BetterHelp (based in BC). Just done one quick intro session, but the counsellor seems great and gave me some good food for thought already, which is nice. It's also a very reasonable option, which makes it far more accessible to more folks, I'd say - and they are all qualified, etc. and covered under some of the major insurance plans. All within their website, so you don't even need Zoom or anything.

Anyways, thank you so much everyone xoxo https://wellin5.ca/ for anyone who might need it.

That’s great - and thanks for the info, I’m going to pass this along to a friend in need.

Jules, so glad; hope it's helpful to them xx