Effective July 1, 2007, the board will no longer license professional mental health counselors. Prior to the effective date, the board shall issue a license as a professional mental health counselor to any person who files a completed application accompanied by the required fees and who submits satisfactory evidence that the applicant: A. has reached the age of twenty-one; B. holds a master's or doctoral degree in counseling or a counseling-related field from an accredited institution and has a total of no less than forty-eight graduate semester hours or seventy-two quarter hours in the mental health clinical core curriculum; C. demonstrates professional competency by passing the required examinations prescribed by the board; D. has completed one thousand client contact hours of postgraduate professional counseling experience under appropriate clinical supervision consisting of at least one hundred supervision hours; and E. is of good moral character with conduct consistent with the code of ethics. History: Laws 1993, ch. 49, § 10; 1999, ch. 161, § 8; 2003, ch. 422, § 8; 2005, ch. 210, § 7. Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-9A-30 NMSA 1978. The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, in Subsection B, provided that the applicant must have a total of not less that forty-eight graduate semester hours or seventy-two quarter hours in the mental health clinical core curriculum; and in Subsection D, changed "supervision" to "clinical supervision". The 2003 amendment, effective June 20, 2003, in Subsection B, substituted "a counseling-related field, as defined by rule" for "an allied mental health field"; in Subsection C, substituted "the required examinations" for "an examination as". The 1999 amendment, effective July 1, 1999, deleted "The board may approve, on a case-by-case basis, applicants who have a master's degree or doctoral degree from non-accredited institutions" at the end of Subsection B, deleted "satisfactorily" preceding "passing" in Subsection C, and added Subsection E.
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