New Mexico Statutes Chapter 61. Professional and Occupational Licenses § 61-9A-10. Professional mental health counselor; requirements for licensure

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.