Sonya Jacobs

Co-founder, Enjoy Your Marriage

Mckinney, TX 75070

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Degree Luther Rice College & Seminary - MABC

Her Story

About Sonya

Sonya Jacobs, MABC, is a marriage and care pastor, Christian counselor, speaker, and co-founder of the nonprofit organization Enjoy Your Marriage, based in McKinney, Texas. With over 25 years of vocational ministry experience, she serves at Preston Trail Community Church, where she provides counseling, oversees marriage and care ministries, and develops strategies that help churches build and sustain healthy marriage programs. In her broader ministry work, she speaks at local and national events, consults with church leadership teams, and leads volunteer and support groups focused on relational health and spiritual growth.

Her professional calling is deeply rooted in both personal experience and formal training. After facing significant challenges in her own marriage, she and her husband sought counseling—an experience that transformed their relationship and ultimately inspired her to pursue graduate studies in biblical counseling. She earned a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling (MABC) from Luther Rice College & Seminary and has since dedicated her career to helping couples move from crisis to restoration. She works with individuals in premarital preparation, marriage enrichment, and intensive crisis counseling, guiding couples toward healthier communication, conflict resolution, and renewed commitment.

Through Enjoy Your Marriage and her church leadership role, Sonya Jacobs works with well over a thousand individuals and couples each year, offering counseling, retreats, conferences, and marriage “adventures” designed to strengthen relationships. She is widely known for her emphasis on the belief that marriage is meant to be enjoyed rather than merely endured, and that strong marriages begin with healthy individuals. Alongside her speaking and counseling work, she also oversees networking and marketing efforts, builds and leads teams, and collaborates with national marriage ministry networks to expand access to relationship education and support.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Sonya

01What do you attribute your success to?

I attribute my success to the people I have had the privilege to raise and support throughout my career. My greatest and most lasting accomplishments are my three children, as well as the many couples I have worked with over the years. Having supported over a thousand individuals and couples annually, I find deep meaning in witnessing marriages being healed, strengthened, and renewed.

02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?

The best career advice I've ever received is to be true to myself. Being a woman in ministry is unique. It's often a very male-dominated field with a lot of men who become masters and elders and ministers and priests. I want women to know that who you are is fearfully and wonderfully made by God that loves you. You're supposed to shine exactly the way that he made you. Don't try to be someone else or put yourself into somebody else's mold. Choose to be you, and be the best version of you. You don't have to do more, just be more. Be more kind, more loving, more insightful, wiser. Be more, don't do more.

03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

Be the best version of you. Be more kind, more loving, more insightful, wiser. Be more, don't do more. And I would say be cautious who you allow to influence you. Don't try to put yourself into somebody else's mold. You are fearfully and wonderfully made by God that loves you, and you're supposed to shine exactly the way that he made you.

04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?

The world that we're in now presents significant challenges, with so many people struggling with pornography and infidelity. These are hard things that marriages have to navigate. However, there's also tremendous opportunity. Research that has come out of Harvard recently shows that being apart of a religious community and having a healthy marriage are what create healthy communities. We know from all of this research on what it means to thrive that these are the foundations. Many of us have experienced personally, or had the people that we love the most experience, the devastation of an unhealthy marriage and divorce. If we can get on the front end as a community and really pour into people and to families, and help them experience the best of what marriage is supposed to be, that's what we want to do. The opportunity is to help people not just endure marriage out of tradition, but to enjoy it, because God created the gift of marriage for it to be enjoyed.

05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?

For me personally, it is God, family, and the life that he's given us. Enjoy it, don't take it for granted. Live moment by moment and be present. Put your electronics down when you can, when you're not having to work on your brand. Put it down, be present, eat dinner together in the kitchen, enjoy, laugh. These are the values that matter most to me.

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