“EMOTIONALLY you are going around with this lead weight around your neck but after one session I felt like that had been lifted.”

These are the words of widow Helen Newlove after visiting a new counselling business that launched in Leigh last week.

Quantum Directions has been hailed as a miracle cure-all for a range of emotional problems from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder to giving up addictions and dieting by using neuro linguistic programming (NLP) to deal with the subconscious.

Judith Hindle, one of the master practioners, said: “We cover everything from bereavement, all kinds of depression including post-natal, all types of stress, improving self-confidence and performance enhancement.

“People need a consultation before we can begin a session, which is informal and like counselling but not in the sense of having to relive experiences.

“It allows people to get rid of the associated negative feelings and one session will do what 12 months of counselling can do because it gets to the root cause – people usually need two sessions to be cured.”

Helen, whose husband Garry was murdered in 2007, said she has come off anti-depressants since having NLP with Judith.

She added: “The girls have received a lighter version and it has also helped them a lot.

“I felt like a lead weight inside me had gone and I have been able to truly laugh again.”