Well I love clicker training and hopefully the fact that he focuses on that means he avoids severe punishments like shocking, choke chains, prongs etc. I would certainly check him out!! Hopefully he can help you.
All those dominance methods or flawed, they focus on wolf behavior and make you pretend your dog and you are part of a wolf pack when in truth neither of you are wolves (and you are not even a dog) and you most certainly cannot impersonate the behavior of one in a proper manner. These dominance methods also fail to address the actual problem (the reason behind the dog's behavior) and simply focus on what the dog thinks about you. These methods require that you scare, punish and intimidate you dogs until they are weary enough of what you might do to them that they stop behaving in ways they think you might attack them for (which may end up giving you a dog who does absolutely nothing but lay there in your presence because he's afraid any sort of activity will get him punished). In the end the dogs feeling about what he was doing (the bad behavior) have not changed. He still really desires to do it but is too afraid to because you might hurt him.
The thing is these dominance trainers (like Cesar Millan) don't recognize that they are actually hurting and scaring the dog. They think they are teaching the dog who is the leader like dogs would do and that the dogs are not scared or anything. They simply don't understand dog body language and think that a slinking, cowering, ears back, rapidly panting dog is calm and well behaved not scared out of his mind (but they are wrong, these dogs are a mess mentally whenever they are asked to do something or are being trained). When they see comfortable dogs with ears ups, tail up, walking tall, they punish and punish because they think the dog is "dominant" when in truth he is just happy.
So ignore anyone who tells you to be alpha or be dominant or who says your dog is dominant or needs to submit to you. It's a bunch of bull poopy. Focus on the behavior of your dog and the motivation behind the behavior, not the theoretical vision people have decided dogs have for their owners.
Anyways go with the clicker trainer or at least ask to see him work with a dog first to judge whether or not you are comfortable with his methods. Keep us updated on your dogs' progress!
