1. The board shall issue a license as a professional clinical mental health counselor to any person who files a completed application accompanied by the required fees within the July 1, 2005 through July 1, 2007 period and who submits satisfactory evidence that the applicant:
2. A. has reached the age of twenty-one;
3. B. holds a current professional mental health counselor license;
4. C. holds a master's or doctoral degree from an accredited institution;
5. D. demonstrates professional competency by satisfactorily passing the required examinations as prescribed by the board;
6. E. has a minimum of three thousand hours of client contact experience, including at least one hundred hours of face-to-face supervision or a minimum of ten thousand hours of client contact experience, including at least two hundred hours of face-to-face supervision; and
7. F. is of good moral character with conduct consistent with the code of ethics.

History: Laws 1999, ch. 161, § 10; 2003, ch. 422, § 10; 2005, ch. 210, § 9.

ANNOTATIONS

Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-9A-30 NMSA 1978.

The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, changed the dates of the period within which an application must be filed; changed "grandfathered professional mental health counselor license" to "current professional mental health counselor license" and deleted the former requirement that the license be applied for prior to July 1, 1994 in Subsection B; deleted the former requirement that the applicant have a total of forty-eight graduate semester or more or seventy-two quarter hours from a regionally accredited institution in Subsection C; deleted the former option to provide documentation of ten thousand hours of client contact experience, including at least three hundred hours of face-to-face supervision of which at least one hundred hours are individual in Subsection D; and decreased the number of hours of client contact experience from five thousand to three thousand hours, decreased the number of hours of face-to-face supervision from two hundred to one hundred hours and added the alternative that experience and supervision may consist of a minimum of ten thousand hours of client contact experience, including at least two hundred hours of face-to-face supervision in Subsection E.

The 2003 amendment, effective June 20, 2003, rewrote Subsection C that formerly read "holds a master's or doctoral degree and a total of sixty graduate hours or more".