After graduating from York in 1980, with a BA Hons in Linguistics, June taught English for a year, both in the UK and abroad, and then went into healthcare and has been there ever since. Having begun training as a nurse in mental health in 1980, she had a break to have her two children, in 1982 and 1985.
She qualified as a Touch for Health instructor (basic Kinesiology) in 1987, as an acupuncturist from the Northern College of Acupuncture in 1991 and as a paediatric acupuncturist in 1994. She obtained a PGCE in 2000. Her on-going training has included mentoring and supervision, which she continues with for her own personal development as a practitioner. In 2004, she added Thermo auricular therapy to her skills. She has also studied Facial Revitalisation Acupuncture in 2005, to help overall well-being and generally assist with facial problems. In 2011, June added Egyptian Sekhem Healing to her skills, and in 2012 she joined ACT Yorkshire to combine forces with colleagues to offer a comprehensive service for pregnancy and childbirth. Over the years June has assisted at 13 births and helped many more women prepare for and recover from labour. She worked very closely with her colleagues in The Healing Clinic ofering complementary therapies alongside acupuncture for families and children, particularly osteopathy and homeopathy.
She has been a member of the British Acupuncture Council since its inception and was the regional group co-ordinator for the York and N Yorkshire region for many years. She was the Continuing Professional Development facilitator for all of Yorkshire following on from that, up until 2012.
June opened The Healing Clinic in Fulford Cross in 1992 in order to provide a wide range of quality complementary therapies to the public, as well as information and training. There were only 2 practitioners to start with, but have varied between 18 & 25 over the subsequent years. June opened the Courses for Health room in 2001, which hosted a wide range of classes, courses and meetings. The clinic shop was added in 2005, to provide some of the products the Healing Clinic practitioners recommend to people for home use, to supplement their treatments.
A major part of June’s clinical practice since 1993 is the treatment of children. In 1996 she started teaching classes for parents and carers of children to help improve understanding of traditional Chinese medicine and the prevention of future problems.
The Healing Clinic moved in May 2007 to York city centre. The Clinic and Briar House Resources became Community Interest Companies, in order to facilitate fund raising for bursaries and improved access to the Clinic and Courses.
June is an enthusiastic networker and a member in the past of several business networks, the local Mental Health Forum, the Council for Voluntary Services network, The York Social Enterprise Network, the York and District Cancer Partnership, among others. She was a member of the group of social enterprises that pioneered the Pop-up Shop We Are Your Emporium in York, selling work made locally by disabled people and giving work opportunities to disabled people in the shop.
June has pioneered the taking of complementary therapies into local organisations, offering mini-masssage treatments through clothing for 15 minute sessions at various events, including AGE UK AGM, Unison AGM, Carers Forum monthly meetings and special events, Refugee Action York, Tang Hall Big Local, City of York Council Staff Benefits events and talks on self-help techniques for stress.
“It was Kinesiology that led me to Acupuncture. That and the fact that Hugh MacPherson was talking about starting a college in York in 1988. So, I signed up and began my studies in 1989, as a single parent with two small children while living on state benefits. But I was determined…
I set up my practice in York (1991), alongside a local homeopath Madeleine Evans, after graduating from the Northern College of Acupuncture, and with the support and help of many other colleagues and friends. Before that, I borrowed some spare time in Christine Skinner’s treatment room in central York, and worked from home doing Touch for Health balances and acupressure treatments.
I worked from The Healing Clinic Community Interest Company (which I set up as the plain Healing Clinic) with a colleague – Chris Vicary in 1992 in the business wing of the York Steiner School). We moved to central York in 2007, with 20 practitioners. We moved again in 2017 to Merchant Gate in York centre. But sadly had to close down due to financial pressures in 2019. I set up Wellbeing in York in the Raylor Centre in May 2019 with my two colleagues Judy Illing and Catherine Brophy and a much smaller group of therapists and teachers.
I still offer acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, acupressure, food energetics (working with balancing your energy with the right foods for your individual needs – Hot, Cold, Damp, etc,), facial revitalisation acupuncture / acupressure massage, treatments for children (usually without needles), tapping and Japanese Shonishin techniques learned from Stephen Birch, crystals, Egyptian Alkhemi Sekhem healing learned from Jacqui Taliesin el Masry, Thermoauricular therapy (ear candling) learned from Linda Stokes, and massage techniques to move Blood and Chi and balance general energies.
I specifically like to help with digestive ailments (they are the root of many many other problems), respiratory problems (if we can’t breathe well, the whole rhythm of the body is out of balance), hormonal imbalances (thrown off by our modern lives and the influences all around us), circulatory problems (if Blood does not flow well, many things do not work at their optimum levels – everything relies on Blood), just as some examples.
Over the last 25 years, I have helped women regain their natural fertility so they could become pregnant, treated them throughout pregnancy, assisted at births, alongside the midwives, to keep things moving when they slow down, help reduce the panic and worry, and to keep the pain levels down (we don’t do complete pain blocking, as we are not anaesthetists) and to help reduce blood loss, I have treated babies of all ages, from the very earliest minutes of life, toddlers and children, through young adults to older age. I have been present at the last minutes of peoples’ lives, and have helped make people with terminal illnesses more comfortable.
I have been teaching other acupuncturists how to use the techniques I use, particularly with their child patients. I started teaching Touch for Health in 1986 (I trained with Brian Butler in 1986) and Oriental Medicine for Children in 1996 (I trained with Julian Scott in 1993 – 94), as well as The Treatment of Children’s Ailments at home for parents and carers. I was teaching online for a few years, which helps people be in touch without having to travel. Now, I am starting again with my combination of Chinese / Oriental medicine treatments plus kinesiology, in an apprenticeship format. Small groups and one-to-one contact time, plus clinical observation.
I had a lovely friend, Jenny Hutchinson, who has allowed me to have her memories of life with her parents who were healers. We planned a book together of home remedies, and it is my promise to her that I will get it done in her memory. She sadly passed away in 2012.
I love my work, in fact it is not work to me, it is a privilege and a vocation that I will be lucky if I can continue to be involved in until my very old age.
June Tranmer
She qualified as a Touch for Health instructor (basic Kinesiology) in 1987, as an acupuncturist from the Northern College of Acupuncture in 1991 and as a paediatric acupuncturist in 1994. She obtained a PGCE in 2000. Her on-going training has included mentoring and supervision, which she continues with for her own personal development as a practitioner. In 2004, she added Thermo auricular therapy to her skills. She has also studied Facial Revitalisation Acupuncture in 2005, to help overall well-being and generally assist with facial problems. In 2011, June added Egyptian Sekhem Healing to her skills, and in 2012 she joined ACT Yorkshire to combine forces with colleagues to offer a comprehensive service for pregnancy and childbirth. Over the years June has assisted at 13 births and helped many more women prepare for and recover from labour. She worked very closely with her colleagues in The Healing Clinic ofering complementary therapies alongside acupuncture for families and children, particularly osteopathy and homeopathy.
She has been a member of the British Acupuncture Council since its inception and was the regional group co-ordinator for the York and N Yorkshire region for many years. She was the Continuing Professional Development facilitator for all of Yorkshire following on from that, up until 2012.
June opened The Healing Clinic in Fulford Cross in 1992 in order to provide a wide range of quality complementary therapies to the public, as well as information and training. There were only 2 practitioners to start with, but have varied between 18 & 25 over the subsequent years. June opened the Courses for Health room in 2001, which hosted a wide range of classes, courses and meetings. The clinic shop was added in 2005, to provide some of the products the Healing Clinic practitioners recommend to people for home use, to supplement their treatments.
A major part of June’s clinical practice since 1993 is the treatment of children. In 1996 she started teaching classes for parents and carers of children to help improve understanding of traditional Chinese medicine and the prevention of future problems.
The Healing Clinic moved in May 2007 to York city centre. The Clinic and Briar House Resources became Community Interest Companies, in order to facilitate fund raising for bursaries and improved access to the Clinic and Courses.
June is an enthusiastic networker and a member in the past of several business networks, the local Mental Health Forum, the Council for Voluntary Services network, The York Social Enterprise Network, the York and District Cancer Partnership, among others. She was a member of the group of social enterprises that pioneered the Pop-up Shop We Are Your Emporium in York, selling work made locally by disabled people and giving work opportunities to disabled people in the shop.
June has pioneered the taking of complementary therapies into local organisations, offering mini-masssage treatments through clothing for 15 minute sessions at various events, including AGE UK AGM, Unison AGM, Carers Forum monthly meetings and special events, Refugee Action York, Tang Hall Big Local, City of York Council Staff Benefits events and talks on self-help techniques for stress.
“It was Kinesiology that led me to Acupuncture. That and the fact that Hugh MacPherson was talking about starting a college in York in 1988. So, I signed up and began my studies in 1989, as a single parent with two small children while living on state benefits. But I was determined…
I set up my practice in York (1991), alongside a local homeopath Madeleine Evans, after graduating from the Northern College of Acupuncture, and with the support and help of many other colleagues and friends. Before that, I borrowed some spare time in Christine Skinner’s treatment room in central York, and worked from home doing Touch for Health balances and acupressure treatments.
I worked from The Healing Clinic Community Interest Company (which I set up as the plain Healing Clinic) with a colleague – Chris Vicary in 1992 in the business wing of the York Steiner School). We moved to central York in 2007, with 20 practitioners. We moved again in 2017 to Merchant Gate in York centre. But sadly had to close down due to financial pressures in 2019. I set up Wellbeing in York in the Raylor Centre in May 2019 with my two colleagues Judy Illing and Catherine Brophy and a much smaller group of therapists and teachers.
I still offer acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, acupressure, food energetics (working with balancing your energy with the right foods for your individual needs – Hot, Cold, Damp, etc,), facial revitalisation acupuncture / acupressure massage, treatments for children (usually without needles), tapping and Japanese Shonishin techniques learned from Stephen Birch, crystals, Egyptian Alkhemi Sekhem healing learned from Jacqui Taliesin el Masry, Thermoauricular therapy (ear candling) learned from Linda Stokes, and massage techniques to move Blood and Chi and balance general energies.
I specifically like to help with digestive ailments (they are the root of many many other problems), respiratory problems (if we can’t breathe well, the whole rhythm of the body is out of balance), hormonal imbalances (thrown off by our modern lives and the influences all around us), circulatory problems (if Blood does not flow well, many things do not work at their optimum levels – everything relies on Blood), just as some examples.
Over the last 25 years, I have helped women regain their natural fertility so they could become pregnant, treated them throughout pregnancy, assisted at births, alongside the midwives, to keep things moving when they slow down, help reduce the panic and worry, and to keep the pain levels down (we don’t do complete pain blocking, as we are not anaesthetists) and to help reduce blood loss, I have treated babies of all ages, from the very earliest minutes of life, toddlers and children, through young adults to older age. I have been present at the last minutes of peoples’ lives, and have helped make people with terminal illnesses more comfortable.
I have been teaching other acupuncturists how to use the techniques I use, particularly with their child patients. I started teaching Touch for Health in 1986 (I trained with Brian Butler in 1986) and Oriental Medicine for Children in 1996 (I trained with Julian Scott in 1993 – 94), as well as The Treatment of Children’s Ailments at home for parents and carers. I was teaching online for a few years, which helps people be in touch without having to travel. Now, I am starting again with my combination of Chinese / Oriental medicine treatments plus kinesiology, in an apprenticeship format. Small groups and one-to-one contact time, plus clinical observation.
I had a lovely friend, Jenny Hutchinson, who has allowed me to have her memories of life with her parents who were healers. We planned a book together of home remedies, and it is my promise to her that I will get it done in her memory. She sadly passed away in 2012.
I love my work, in fact it is not work to me, it is a privilege and a vocation that I will be lucky if I can continue to be involved in until my very old age.
June Tranmer