Originally trained as a composer and baroque violinist, Frances toured and recorded for over seventeen years with the leading Baroque chamber orchestras of Britain and Holland. At the same time she developed her skills as a complementary health practitioner, and has been working as a healer since the early 90s. In the Frances Turner Clinic she treats patients using Healing, Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine and Sounding. She has much experience working with musicians’ problems, in particular musculo-skeletal problems of the upper body, and performance stress. She also has a special interest in working with patients with menopausal, gastric and respiratory problems. 
Frances has a Masters degree from Exeter University in the study of the English language used in the teaching of Chinese medicine in Britain, and she used this research in curriculum development at the London College of Traditional Acupuncture (LCTA) in North London (affiliated to Portsmouth University), where she was a senior lecturer in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine from 2000 until its demise in 2010. She is currently setting up a new Chinese Herbal Medicine training at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading.
Frances continues to develop her teaching, and offers CPD seminars and workshops for graduates in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in Britain and Europe. Subjects include pulse reading (with accompanying 3 Step System Pulse CDROM illustrating the Chinese Pulse Characters), intuition in acupuncture practice, Chinese medicine and sugar addiction and Chinese herbal medicine and the immune system.
Frances sits on the Accreditation Committee of the British Acupuncture Accreditation Board (BAAB), and is a member of the both the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) and the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine (RCHM).
Frances has written and recorded the Song of the Mountains. Inspired by shamanic work in the Rocky Mountains in Canada, and scored for voice, percussion and baroque strings, this music explores the bringing together of the music and the healing that have been central to Frances’s life and work.