Luz de Lourdes Eguiluz studied Psychology at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She completed a master's degree in Family Therapy at Universidad de las Américas, as well as a specialisation in Ericksonian Hypnosis at Instituto de Programación Neurolingüística in Guadalajara, Mexico. She was trained in Family Therapy at Williams College, Massachusetts, and at Stanford University, California. She did her PhD in Psychological Research at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and has been a researcher at UNAM for more than 25 years in the area of Research Methodology. She is the author of several books: Ante el suicidio (2013), ¿Qué podemos hacer ante el suicidio? (2013), Entendiendo a la pareja (2014), Usos de la psicología positiva (2019), Terapia familiar sistémica (2021) and Dinámica de la familia (2023), all published by Pax.