About Diversity Included
Inclusion, turned into everyday practice.
Diversity Included helps people and organizations understand, embrace and support diverse ways of thinking, learning and participating, through education, workshops, coaching and consultation.
Meet the founder
Kamla A. Williams, MA, RSW
Kamla is a Registered Social Worker, researcher, author, poet and neurodiversity interventionist. She practises as a Primary Health Care and Chronic Disease Management Social Worker with Nova Scotia Health, where she provides individual and family counselling and psychotherapy, leads peer support groups, and develops education and health programs. She brings more than 11,000 clinical hours of experience, grounded in trauma-informed and solution-focused practice.
Her experience also includes child protection work with Nova Scotia’s Department of Community Services and, in Jamaica, serving as Head of the Psychosocial Department as a Medical Social Worker with the Ministry of Health, where she supported individuals and families living with HIV and trained and supervised staff. She holds a Master of Social Work from Dalhousie University, a Master of Arts in Child and Youth Study from Mount Saint Vincent University, and a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from Northern Caribbean University.
Her research explores the experiences of neurodivergent and ADHD social workers in Canada, including professional identity, masking, belonging and the structural barriers people face at work. That work shapes everything Diversity Included does.
Kamla founded Diversity Included and hosts the Diversity Included podcast. Her writing blends research, psychology, storytelling and practical guidance, because people do their best when they feel understood.
11,000+
clinical hours of experience
Education
Master of Social Work, Dalhousie University
MA, Child & Youth Study, Mount Saint Vincent University
BSc, Social Work, Northern Caribbean University
Experience
Registered Social Worker, Nova Scotia
Primary Health Care & Chronic Disease Management Social Worker, Nova Scotia Health
Child protection social worker, Department of Community Services
Former Head, Psychosocial Department, Ministry of Health, Jamaica
Community
Founder, Diversity Included
Host, Diversity Included podcast
Member, Health Committee and Professional Practice Committee, Nova Scotia College of Social Workers
Member, Association of Black Social Workers
Board member, Boys and Girls Club of Truro and Colchester
What guides our work
Our values
1
Difference, not deficit
We work from the neurodiversity paradigm: different minds are a natural part of human variation, with real strengths and real needs.
2
Change the system, not the person
Lasting inclusion comes from flexible, anti-ableist environments, not from asking people to mask or “try harder.”
3
Relationships first
Empathy, trust and lived experience are forms of knowledge. We listen before we recommend.
4
Culture and context matter
Guided by decolonial and critical disability perspectives, we honour each person’s culture, identity and story.
Let’s work together.
For yourself, your family, your classroom or your team. It starts with a free conversation.