I view my T sorta like I do my coworkers I suppose. Except that the work we're doing is all about me. haha. But then, some of my coworkers I view as peers and others not so much. I think that my T is someone I would probably befriend to some extent if I had met him in a different situation, so I think he has the potential to be like a peer. I think he treats me sort of like that too in a way - because in a lot of ways I'm better read on bipolar than he is as I don't think he's had too many bipolar patients (he's got a lot of experience with BPD though). We have different skill sets in some ways, but I behave towards my students a lot like how he would behave with clients, so I can understand and appreciate him in that regard. He's more like "coworker" than "peer" and that works for me.