Some behaviour advice needed please

[Laafet]

Hey everyone, I've not been on here for ages but am looking for advice on a behavioural issue that I am having with Toby. Toby is a two year old Miniature Poodle rescue dog that I have had 6 months. He is in general a happy little dog who loves to be my shadow. He did initial have a recall problem but I fixed that with training and he is 90% ok now.
His ongoing problem is that he seems to be very insecure and it comes out in ways that are very antisocial. Firstly if we go round to someone house or away on holiday he develops a 'tourettes' like high pitch bark, this is at any sound and seems to be involuntary and is very annoying as he will bark atleast once a minute the whole time. It makes no difference whether I am sat with him or not.
More worryingly is how he behaves when we meet people. Sometimes he is fine, waggy tail lots of kisses. Other times he rushes upto the person growling an barking, I can call him back but he is keen to go back and have another go. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the type of person he does this too and sometimes he will do it to people he has met before and been fine with in the past. Even when I get him back to me he is still going crazy at them and it is embarrassing. I have tried distracting him which only works if I have a ball on me and show it to him, but then he will not go for a wee or poo as he is so ball obsessed.
The other day on the yard I was talking to one lady and he was just wandering around near me when another livery turned up, I called out hello and then went back to me conversation. Toby rushed up to her (he has met her and been fine before) barking manically and growling, she said 'hello Toby' and ignored him. He came back to me and was fine for a minute, then he raced off round to where her stable was and went completly ballistic at her. Luckily everyone here is good with dogs so they tend to ignore the behaviour but I am worried as he does it out on walks too.
Sorry for long post. Any suggestions.

 

[CorvusCorax]

It's a wee bit complex to diagnose or suggest anything over a forum, so I would seek out a good behaviourist in your area to come out and see you? As mentioned before, try to find someone in the middle of the all-positive, but can't really deal with aggression bracket, and yank-and-crank with no treats brigade! They are out there!
As with a lot of issues, you can work on your focus to get him distracted away from other people and dogs, if he is ball or food orientated, so if you spot a situation that is likely to lead to conflict or if you can see he is going to bugger off on you, you can call him and get is attention that way.

 

[soloabe]

Agree with cc.

If you let me know where in the country you are I can give you some.names.

In the mean time the best confidence builder I have found is trick shaping.
It teaches them to come up ideas, to think for themselves and they get rewarded for the correct thing.

Search 101 things to do with a box. Great place to start.
You basically put a box down and click and treat any interaction with the box even just glancing at it. Then you slowly shape into whatever trick you want by clicking for the things you want him to do.