After many years of working as a specialist dog trainer and behaviour practitioner, Dean is Education Director and Clinical Behaviourist at the Sussex Canine Centre in Lewes, East Sussex. As part of his role he is the behaviour specialist who advises the Grooming, Hydrotherapy and Vet Nurse Clinics on how to handle difficult and aggressive behaviour in dogs.

Dean heads the Training & Behaviour Team that delivers a quaility, professional training schedule and runs a busy Behaviour Clinic that offers support through 1-2-1 advisory sessions and full behaviour consultations on veterinary referral.

He is also a behaviour advisor to the Links Group and two other local rescue centres where he assesses aggressive dogs to establish if there is any potential for rehoming and runs training courses on canine behaviour and handling skills for rescue centre staff.

Sussex Canine Centre is also an Accredited College and Dean Lectures on a range of practical and theory subjects including Introduction and Advanced Canine Behaviour, Handling Skills, Anatomy and Physiology, Nutrition and professional hydrotherapy, phobias, canine learning and aggression.