Authority and scope
Check the license and concern
The Psychologist Examiners Board covers psychologists, psychologist associates and prescribing psychologists. Counseling and Therapy Practice separately lists LPCC and LMHC counselors, LMFT and associate MFT credentials, LADAC alcohol/drug counselors and LSAA substance-abuse associates, plus art-therapy credentials. Social Work Examiners oversees social-work licensing, including clinical practice. Each board has its own rules even though all three pages link to the same RLD complaint service.
Supporting guidance: Counseling and Therapy Practice Board ↗Counseling and therapy license categories ↗Psychologist Examiners Board ↗Social Work Examiners Board ↗
Match the route to the credential
Use the license listed in the practitioner’s records or official license lookup. A psychiatrist is a physician; psychiatric nurses have nursing credentials. Some psychologists have prescribing authority, so medication alone does not identify the licensing board.
Choose the right licensing authority
Psychologists and prescribing psychologists
Authority and complaint link checked; detailed instructions limited.
Open this official route ↗Counselors, MFTs, addiction and art therapists
Authority and complaint link checked; detailed instructions limited.
Open this official route ↗Clinical and other social workers
Authority and complaint link checked; detailed instructions limited.
Open this official route ↗Confirm the filing instructions
- Use the Boards and Commissions Division section of RLD Online Services and its File a Complaint or Violation link to NM-PLUS. It lists Counseling and Therapy, Psychologist Examiners and Social Work Examiners among covered professions. The downstream form was not read; exact fields and submission requirements remain limited.
- Ask board staff for the current complaint instructions, including signatures, any notarization, patient authorization and requirements when filing for a child or another adult. The general telephone on these board pages is 505-476-4622.
- Board contacts are counseling.board@rld.nm.gov, psychologist.examiners@rld.nm.gov and socialworkboard@rld.nm.gov. These are contact addresses; this check did not establish email as an accepted complaint-submission method.
- Prepare a dated account identifying the clinician, credential, location, alleged conduct and supporting correspondence. Ask how to send therapy records securely. RLD’s published mailing address is P.O. Box 25101, Santa Fe, NM 87504, but acceptance of a mailed complaint was not established.
Supporting guidance: Counseling and Therapy Practice Board ↗Psychologist Examiners Board ↗Social Work Examiners Board ↗New Mexico RLD: Boards and Commissions online services ↗
What this route may not provide
A prescribing psychologist belongs to the psychology route; prescribing authority does not make that practitioner a physician. The checked board descriptions concern professional standards and discipline. Authority to obtain refunds, damages or a particular treatment result was not established. For a psychiatrist (MD/DO), use the medical guide; for a psychiatric advanced-practice nurse, use the nursing guide. Identify any facility or program complaint separately from the individual credential.
Supporting guidance: Psychologist Examiners Board ↗
Do not guess about confidentiality
Anonymous filing, respondent access, public disclosure and record-release terms remain unverified for all three boards. Shared online access does not establish shared confidentiality rules. Ask the selected board before providing another person’s sensitive treatment information.
A filing deadline was not established by this check; ask promptly.
A filing deadline was not established by this check; ask promptly. No complaint-processing estimate was verified. Licensing application or renewal deadlines on RLD pages are not complaint-filing deadlines.
What may happen after filing
The board descriptions establish public-protection and discipline responsibilities, but current screening, investigation, hearing and complainant-notification steps were not established by the accessible material. Request the procedure for the particular board before relying on a timeline.
Prepare a reviewable submission
State the concern you want reviewed, give a short chronology and factual consequences, and explain your request. Keep supporting records and follow the receiving authority’s instructions before attaching or sending them.
Sources and scope
Some agency-linked forms and destinations could not be read. Source-check dates apply to the material listed below; they do not establish that every linked portal was inspected or a complaint submitted.
Counseling and Therapy Practice Board ↗
Board authority, contact and linked complaint destination
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Counseling and therapy license categories ↗
Counseling, MFT, addiction and art-therapy credential scope
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Psychologist Examiners Board ↗
Psychology, associates, prescribing psychologists and contact
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Social Work Examiners Board ↗
Social-work authority and contact
Source checked: September 19, 2026
New Mexico RLD: Boards and Commissions online services ↗
Official indexed BCD text read: directs complaints to NM-PLUS and lists the three behavioral boards; downstream complaint form not retrieved. Other divisions on this page have different jurisdiction.
Source checked: September 30, 2026
Latest guide source check: September 30, 2026. Individual sources retain their own check dates. This records a review of the linked material, not a decision about your case. No clinical or legal reviewer is identified for this guide. Confirm current instructions with the receiving authority.