Thank you very much for reading and commenting! :)

Sirius--the gigantic elephant in the room

That's brilliant! I've done a double take on this, because of course, it would have made a great remix subtitle for the fic. You've summed up exactly what I wanted to get across.

It's great you liked the therapist's POV. I wanted to show the gamut of the relationship, from bad to good, and this seemed the right way to go.