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This co-design work, informed by Bird et al.\u2019s generative framework for co-production, built upon a prior study involving interviews and co-design workshops with young people and healthcare\/allied health professionals, and informed a preliminary model of support-seeking. The current work involved two further co-production stages through an online survey and workshop to refine this model. Data were analysed using a thematic approach to support conceptual model development. Four interconnected themes shaped support-seeking: (1) readiness to engage: recognition, emotional readiness, and relational safety; (2) access and appraisal of support: visibility, fit, feasibility, and burden; (3) pathways to support: multi-modal, layered, and non-linear engagement; and (4) support trajectory: changing needs and recurrent engagement. Engagement in support-seeking depended on the alignment of readiness, recognition of need, and relational safety. 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