He brings this orientation to the "lived experience" of older adults into collaborative work with governmental and non-profit agencies in Goodhue County MN and to his private practice in St. Paul, MN. He has taught psychology of aging courses for the Minnesota Psychological Association and at St. Mary's University of Minnesota, and Existential -phenomenological Dimensions of Aging at the University of Montana. He has also developed a Senior mental health oriented peer counseling program in conjunction with Goodhue County, MN Health & Human Services in Red Wing. His recent book Reflections on Aging: Greeting the Changing Face in the Mirror is a series of essays on the phenomenology of aging, with accompanying photographs by Minnesota photographer Robin Wipperling. His essays also appear in Today magazine.