I guess it depends on one's idea of what a "therapist" is; the concept of "seeing a therapist as a therapist"; that's a given, that is just what their job is, why we see them at all? I see teachers as teachers, mothers as mothers, accountants as accountants, attorneys as attorneys, etc. There's no "magic" there, we all have certain roles we have chosen (or been born into). Unless one is in the mental health field one's self, I don't see how "peer" enters into it.