PRESS & MEDIA

Featuring Emely Rumble, LCSW

PUBLICATIONS

The New York Times

These 5 Books Might Make You a Better Friend: Counselors, researchers and health professionals share the titles they recommend the most.

ESSENCE

Bibliotherapy Is The Wellness Practice You Didn’t Know You Needed: The right piece of literature can help you heal. Bibliotherapy is finding new relevance through Emely Rumble’s work—and her powerful new book.

CNN HEALTH

Why reading is a form of therapy

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY

How to Use Books to Boost Your Mental Health: Therapist and author Emely Rumble on bringing bibliotherapy home.

KATIE COURIC MEDIA

Get Literary Therapy With These Five Soul-Nourishing Books: A mental health expert shares the titles she uses with her own clients.

BUSTLE WELLNESS

Need To Organize Your Life? Try A “Journal Ecosystem”

DAZED MAGAZINE

Bibliotherapy: Can reading help treat your depression?

WOMAN'S WORLD MAGAZINE

What Is Bibliotherapy? A Therapist Explains How Books Can Heal Plus Shares Her Top Reads.

SUCCESS MAGAZINE

Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

DEON LIBRA

The Bronx Native Using Books to Help Us Heal

whatcom reads presents: a conversation on bibliotherapy with emely rumble, LCSW

In the 2025 Whatcom READS selection No Two Persons, we see characters who are impacted and even healed by reading the same book. In this virtual program we’ll hear from Emely Rumble, LCSW.

Well Read Magazine May 2025

Mandy Haynes introduces Emely Rumble, LCSW.

SCARY MOMMY

Why We Get So Attached To Fictional Characters, & What It Says About Us. Plot Twist: It's Healing!

Popsugar Magazine: Maybe You Need a Bibliotherapist

Alexis Jones interviews Emely Rumble about the intersection between literature and mental health.

PODCASTS

THERAPY FOR BLACK GIRLS

In this inspiring and deeply resonant conversation, Emely explains how the books we read can be a lifeline, a mirror, and a healing balm, especially for young people navigating complex emotional landscapes.

BOOK RIOT: Talking bibliotherapy with Emely Rumble

Rebecca talks with Emely Rumble, author of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx, about using books as a tool for individual and collective healing, social justice, and more.

THE CHILLS AT WILL PODCAST

Thoughtful, Reflective, Artistic and Creative Reading with Bibliotherapist Emely Rumble, LCSW

Sitting with the Griots Podcast

Hosted by Sean P. Emely breaks down exactly what bibliotherapy is, how it works, and why storytelling is essential—especially for marginalized communities. Plus, she shares the incredible journey of becoming recognized by platforms like Essence Magazine and The New York Times.

a new life story podcast

The Power of Bibliotherapy: How Stories Can Heal Emotional Wounds with Emely Rumble - Episode 36

writing while black podcast

The Bibliotherapist Has Her Scripts Ready To Heal Ya!

DIFFERENT SPECTRUMS PODCAST

Winnie the Pooh: Bibliotherapy & Community

CAKE THERAPY PODCAST

Books as a Bridge to Mental Wellness: Emely Rumble's Journey with Bibliotherapy

All of this & more w/CHARLOTTE DONLON

Charlotte talks to author Emely Rumble about her new book Bibliotherapy in the Bronx.

Live Well, Sister! Episode

A conversation with Emely Rumble, LCSW hosted by Marcie Thomas of Brown Girl Collective.

We Published, Beloved! with Dr. Jenn M. Jackson

Dr. Jackson and I talk about the journey behind Bibliotherapy in the Bronx—from writing and navigating the publishing process to the lessons, surprises, and truths I uncovered.

BFF: Black, Fat, Femme Podcast

Take a look, it's in a book (Featuring Emely Rumble, LCSW).

Live Happy Now Podcast: Get Your Summer Prescription with Emely Rumble

Emely shares how fiction, poetry, and even children’s books can help us reflect, process emotions, and build empathy in ways traditional self-help books can’t. With summer reading season in full swing, she explains how to create your own “book prescription” for better mental health and reconnect with the joy of reading — not as a task, but as a tool for transformation.

We can't do it alone podcast

On this episode of We Can't Do It Alone, Nōn sits down with biblio, poetry and hip hop therapist, creator of the Readers Who Run with the Wolves book club, and author of Bibliotherapy In the Bronx, Emely Rumble LCISW, to explore Emely's childhood being raised by her grandmother and the books that helped her to escape and to understand, foster care and the safety within being present, the life-changing power of public libraries, how hip hop therapy helped one of her client's open up his heart, and the connective, healing magic of deep listening.

Black Girl Burnout Podcast

In this powerful and tender episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley is joined by licensed clinical social worker and bibliotherapist Emely Rumble for a deeply affirming conversation about the healing power of stories. As part of our “Summer of Yes,” this episode explores what happens when we slow down, find ourselves in fiction, and use storytelling as a path to emotional integration and liberation. Kelley and Emely talk about the role of literature in Black healing, how stories help us reclaim fragmented parts of ourselves, and why culturally rooted narratives matter in the therapeutic process. This episode is your invitation to reflect on the books that shaped you, the characters who gave you language, and the stories that helped you survive. If you’ve ever felt healed by a page, this one’s for you.