diff --git a/doc/api/deprecations.md b/doc/api/deprecations.md
index eaaa5090f8502a..e1f416ea79d4f6 100644
--- a/doc/api/deprecations.md
+++ b/doc/api/deprecations.md
@@ -2523,14 +2523,18 @@ Prefer [`response.socket`][] over [`response.connection`][] and
 ### DEP0134: process._tickCallback
 <!-- YAML
 changes:
+  - version: REPLACEME
+    pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/29671
+    description: Runtime deprecation.
   - version: REPLACEME
     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/29781
     description: Documentation-only deprecation.
 -->
-Type: Documentation-only (supports [`--pending-deprecation`][])
+Type: Runtime
 
 The `process._tickCallback` property was never documented as
-an officially supported API.
+an officially supported API. Please use `process.runNextTicks`
+instead.
 
 [`--pending-deprecation`]: cli.html#cli_pending_deprecation
 [`--throw-deprecation`]: cli.html#cli_throw_deprecation
diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
index 18acd9d2b64774..636bbdd14ccd04 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
@@ -281,10 +281,13 @@ process.emitWarning = emitWarning;
   const { nextTick, runNextTicks } = setupTaskQueue();
   process.nextTick = nextTick;
   // Used to emulate a tick manually in the JS land.
-  // A better name for this function would be `runNextTicks` but
-  // it has been exposed to the process object so we keep this legacy name
-  // TODO(joyeecheung): either remove it or make it public
-  process._tickCallback = runNextTicks;
+  process.runNextTicks = runNextTicks;
+  process._tickCallback = deprecate(
+    runNextTicks,
+    'process._tickCallback is deprecated. ' +
+    'Please use `process.runNextTicks` instead.',
+    'DEP0134');
+
 
   const { getTimerCallbacks } = require('internal/timers');
   const { setupTimers } = internalBinding('timers');
diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js
index 174ffcd018fd31..cab2d47c8e3350 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js
@@ -271,10 +271,6 @@ function initializeDeprecations() {
     process.binding = deprecate(process.binding,
                                 'process.binding() is deprecated. ' +
                                 'Please use public APIs instead.', 'DEP0111');
-
-    process._tickCallback = deprecate(process._tickCallback,
-                                      'process._tickCallback() is deprecated',
-                                      'DEP0134');
   }
 
   // Create global.process and global.Buffer as getters so that we have a