Hello. I am here to ask a simple question.
BG:
I am graduating from college (woohoo!) and am applying to jobs right now, and some of the most interesting ones I've seen and applied to are for peers only, and have peer in the title. I am also going into the mental health field (applying to grad school for a counseling program). I have had extensive experience in the field as a client (several hospitalizations for psychosis) but I'm in remission and possibly recovery, even if there's no paradigm for that right now in modern psych.

Tl;dr
I have heard from some pretty reliable sources (job coach, an LMHC), that having a peer job will create issues in further employment. Even though the entire point of the mental health field is to reduce stigma, I am told employers will look down on the fact that I am a peer. I argued that this wouldn't matter if I had my licensure, already proving my ability to work. Have any of you had experience with this?

If you have links to anything, that would be highly appreciated. I usually don't resort to making a new account somewhere just to ask one question, but I had trouble finding the correct keywords for a google search.
Thanks for your help