The-Laker-Issue-Fall-2021

alumni spotlight THE ANSWERS WITHIN US Doyle Pruitt ’98 built a career helping people in traumatic circumstances find a way forward. 18 | the LAKER Right before her senior year in high school, Doyle Pruitt’s family moved to Canandaigua, a tight-knit community where many of the other teens had grown up together. She felt like an outsider but only until she started classes at FLCC in fall 1996. “I felt like here I did fit in,” she said. “The professors saw beyond what clique you belonged to. It allowed me to explore who I was and what I wanted without having to explain myself.” At FLCC, Doyle began her deliberate pursuit of a career in clinical social work, starting with her associate degree in human services in 1998, followed by a bachelor’s in social work and psychology from Nazareth, then a master’s in social work at Syracuse University. She earned a Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo in 2013. Now a licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in Canandaigua, she specializes in the assessment and treatment