what do we do? is there a way we get in touch to discuss our experiences?
You go to your local police branch that is fighting cybercrimes and file a complaint providing all the proof on how you have been scammed.
That's all you can do.
There is very little you can do now other than that, nobody can freeze those funds, nobody can reverse those transactions, that's how bitcoin works, and if you eventually manage to find the scammers in real-world and nobody but the authorities can seize their money and start a refunding process to the victims.
Besides that, try to avoid any so-called "crypto recovering services" that will ask you to pay upfront as those are also scams.
You've left your email here so a lot of scammers will try to milk some more money out of you.