Professional art therapist; requirements for licensure

(Repealed effective July 1, 2028.) The board shall issue a license as a professional art therapist to a 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. demonstrates professional competency by passing an examination as prescribed by the board; C. holds a master's or doctoral degree in art therapy, counseling or counseling- related field from an accredited institution or nationally approved art therapy program with a total of no less than forty-eight graduate semester hours or seventy-two quarter hours in the art therapy core curriculum; D. meets the art therapy core curriculum as defined by rule; E. has completed a minimum of two years post-graduate professional experience, three thousand client contact hours and one hundred hours of post-graduate experience under appropriate supervision. Seven hundred clinical client contact hours may be from the applicant's internship or practicum program beyond the requirements in Subsection C of this subsection. Supervision shall be under a New Mexico-licensed professional art therapist or certified board therapist for at least fifty percent of the working hours; and F. observes the code of ethics. History: Laws 1993, ch. 49, § 13; 1999, ch. 161, § 12; 2003, ch. 422, § 13; 2005, ch. 210, § 12; 2007, ch. 166, § 2; 2021, ch. 93, § 11.