Thank you for the reply
All the stuff we've done hasn't just taken a week...this has been over the past year and a half...he's had the anxiety and barking issue since he was about 6 months old - we got him at 12 weeks. I'm gonna stick with working on it with him, but I would love to find a way to let him know that he's never gonna be abandoned, you know? I'm definitely gonna continue the training with him though.