Lili de Hoyos Anderson

Who is Lili de Hoyos Anderson?

Lili De Hoyos Anderson is an individual, marriage, and family counselor who has written books on the topic.

Anderson is a daughter of Arturo De Hoyos and his wife Genevieve. Her father is a native of Mexico and her mother was born in France. She was born on September 15, 1954, in Eagle Pass, a community along the Texas/Mexico border, but soon after her father began his doctoral program at Michigan State University so she spent her early childhood in East Lansing. Her father was then a professor of Sociology, first for two years at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and then at the Indiana University Medical Extension so she lived for several years in Indianapolis, Indiana. Both her parents then joined the BYU faculty so she attended Provo High School where she met Christian B. Anderson, whom she would later marry. She attended Brigham Young University and married Chris after he returned from serving a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Japan Central Mission. Anderson graduated magna cum laude in Sociology in 1975, then became a full-time mother. After 18 years at home with her eight children, she entered graduate school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and completed a Master's Degree in Social Work, becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. A few years later, after her husband transferred to Salt Lake City, she went back to school to complete a Ph.D. in Marriage, Family and Human Development at BYU. Upon completion of her degree, she worked as a part-time professor at BYU for several years, teaching a class based on "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" - a official proclamation by the leaders of the LDS church. During that time, her private practice grew and she eventually withdrew from teaching in order to have more time to write.