New Mexico
Register / Volume XXXVI, Issue 22 / November 18, 2025
This is an amendment to
16.27.22 NMAC, Sections 8 and 10, effective 11/18/2025
16.27.22.8 SUPERVISION:
A. Supervision
must be provided by a licensed professional clinical mental health counselor
(LPCC), licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), licensed professional
art therapist (LPAT), licensed psychologist, licensed psychiatrist, licensed
clinical social worker (LCSW), or licensed independent social worker (LISW) who
holds a supervision designation issued by the counseling and therapy practice board.
B. It is the responsibility of the
individual seeking supervision to assure the
supervision is acceptable for the level of licensure. The relationship between the supervisor and
the applicant must promote the development of skill and responsibility in the
delivery of counseling or therapy services.
C. Client contact and supervision hours
prior to being licensed will not be accepted for licensure.
D. Supervised
contact hours will become invalid if obtained more than five years prior to
submission for independent [LPCC]
(LMFT) licensure. This requirement does not apply to license
holders who have continuously maintained a license in good standing.
[16.27.22.8 NMAC - N,
2/10/2006; A, 11/30/2021; A, 11/18/2025]
16.27.22.10 DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED FOR LICENSURE
BY EXAMINATION:
A. a completed application as specified
in 16.27.3.8 NMAC; and
B. the applicant is required to submit
an official transcript [in a
sealed envelope] from each
institution contributing to the applicant’s master or doctoral degree; the
transcript may be submitted electronically directly by the issuing institution
to the board’s e-mail address, in their original and sealed envelope with the
application, or mailed directly to the board office by the issuing institution.
Applicants who have just graduated with an appropriate degree field, and whose
degrees have not yet been conferred by their university, may submit the
following documentation in while awaiting official transcripts to become
available:
(1) A
verification letter from a university official verifying;
(a) their degree program;
(b) that all courses have been completed
and they have earned passing grades;
(c) their degrees will be conferred by
the university; and
(2) a receipt verifying that they have ordered their
transcripts to be sent to the board office once their degree is conferred; and
C. a statement from each supervisor [in a sealed envelope] on a form provided by the board (attachment C)
verifying the applicant has arranged for appropriate clinical supervision,
supervised experience and setting forth the nature and extent of such
supervision must be submitted with the application; and
D. applicant must complete and meet the
marriage and family core curriculum (form D); and
E. application fee of $75.00 as
provided for in Part 17.
[16.27.22.10 NMAC - N, 2/10/2006; A, 11/30/2021; A, 1/18/2023; A,
11/18/2025]