Financial Therapist Rahkim Sabree Delivers Powerful, Trauma-Informed Keynote at AFCPE Symposium

Phoenix, Arizona Nov 27, 2025 (EMWNews.com) – Nationally recognized financial therapist, author, and speaker Rahkim Sabree, AFC®, delivered a groundbreaking keynote at the 2025 AFCPE Symposium, guiding more than 100 financial counselors, planners, and wellness professionals through an immersive, trauma-informed experience designed to establish psychological safety, deepen connection, and introduce the emerging science of financial trauma.

Sabree opened the session by intentionally establishing safety for both himself and the audience, inviting attendees into a shared breathing exercise to regulate the room’s collective nervous system. Drawing from polyvagal theory, he emphasized that humans seek safety through connection, attunement, and cues in facial expression and body language — elements rarely acknowledged in traditional financial education.

In a powerful cultural moment, Sabree incorporated a call-and-response inspired by Erykah Badu, asking the room, “Sistas, how y’all feeling? Brothas, y’all alright?”
He then posed the reflective question: “Am I safe with you?” — followed by the declaration, “You are safe with me.”

“I’ve never regulated a room of over 100 bodies before,” Sabree said. “But by the end of that hour, the energy in the standing ovation told me we were healing financial trauma together — as a community.”

Audience members responded with tears, hugs, and an overwhelming sense of safety, marking the keynote as one of the Symposium’s most transformative sessions.

Sabree, author of the newly released Overcoming Financial Trauma: How to Break Free From Guilt, Build Wealth, and Redefine Success(Wiley, 2025), has rapidly become one of the nation’s leading voices on the intersection of mental health, personal finance, and trauma. His frameworks — including the 3E’s of Overcoming Financial Trauma and the TRUST Method— are informing corporate wellness programs, ERG initiatives, nonprofit trainings, and financial-counseling practices across the United States.

About Rahkim Sabree
Rahkim Sabree, AFC®, is a financial therapist, author, keynote speaker, and Forbes contributor focused on helping individuals and organizations understand and overcome financial trauma. His work integrates behavioral health, nervous-system science, cultural context, and trauma-responsive financial education.