Hi @dana_canzano, thank you for following up.
You were right, enabling the debug logs was the key. It immediately showed that the real issue was an SSLCertVerificationError.
The final fix was a two-step process. First, I changed my connection URI to neo4j+ssc, which successfully bypassed the SSL error. That allowed the connection to proceed and reveal a final AuthError, which I then traced to a simple configuration mistake in my local .env file.
Couldn't have solved it without the debug logs pointing me in the right direction. Thanks again!