diff --git a/change/@fluentui-react-positioning-12f69b12-6e86-4415-8a0d-b34318f3b71e.json b/change/@fluentui-react-positioning-12f69b12-6e86-4415-8a0d-b34318f3b71e.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1a80439810b10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/change/@fluentui-react-positioning-12f69b12-6e86-4415-8a0d-b34318f3b71e.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "type": "minor",
+  "comment": "exposes new typings to avoid exposing internal methods",
+  "packageName": "@fluentui/react-positioning",
+  "email": "bernardo.sunderhus@gmail.com",
+  "dependentChangeType": "patch"
+}
diff --git a/packages/react-components/react-positioning/etc/react-positioning.api.md b/packages/react-components/react-positioning/etc/react-positioning.api.md
index 792c36e9a9648..417c02185fd89 100644
--- a/packages/react-components/react-positioning/etc/react-positioning.api.md
+++ b/packages/react-components/react-positioning/etc/react-positioning.api.md
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ export type PositioningVirtualElement = {
 // @public (undocumented)
 export function resolvePositioningShorthand(shorthand: PositioningShorthand | undefined | null): Readonly<PositioningProps>;
 
+// @public (undocumented)
+export type SetVirtualMouseTarget = (event: React_2.MouseEvent | MouseEvent | undefined | null) => void;
+
 // @internal (undocumented)
 export function usePositioning(options: UsePositioningOptions): {
     targetRef: React_2.MutableRefObject<any>;
@@ -109,7 +112,7 @@ export function usePositioning(options: UsePositioningOptions): {
 };
 
 // @internal
-export const usePositioningMouseTarget: (initialState?: PositioningVirtualElement | (() => PositioningVirtualElement) | undefined) => readonly [PositioningVirtualElement | undefined, (event: React_2.MouseEvent | MouseEvent | undefined | null) => void];
+export const usePositioningMouseTarget: (initialState?: PositioningVirtualElement | (() => PositioningVirtualElement) | undefined) => readonly [PositioningVirtualElement | undefined, SetVirtualMouseTarget];
 
 // (No @packageDocumentation comment for this package)
 
diff --git a/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/index.ts b/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/index.ts
index 23ed0f051bc7c..11e68a7c54622 100644
--- a/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/index.ts
@@ -19,4 +19,5 @@ export type {
   PositioningShorthand,
   PositioningShorthandValue,
   PositioningVirtualElement,
+  SetVirtualMouseTarget,
 } from './types';
diff --git a/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/types.ts b/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/types.ts
index 455e2bfdc7f98..7e5d84a69c5a1 100644
--- a/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/types.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ export type PositioningVirtualElement = {
   contextElement?: Element;
 };
 
+export type SetVirtualMouseTarget = (event: React.MouseEvent | MouseEvent | undefined | null) => void;
+
 export interface PositioningOptions {
   /** Alignment for the component. Only has an effect if used with the @see position option */
   align?: Alignment;
diff --git a/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/usePositioningMouseTarget.ts b/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/usePositioningMouseTarget.ts
index 38ca692b33de4..5d8a81dce66cf 100644
--- a/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/usePositioningMouseTarget.ts
+++ b/packages/react-components/react-positioning/src/usePositioningMouseTarget.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { createVirtualElementFromClick } from './createVirtualElementFromClick';
-import { PositioningVirtualElement } from './types';
+import { PositioningVirtualElement, SetVirtualMouseTarget } from './types';
 
 /**
  * @internal
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export const usePositioningMouseTarget = (
 ) => {
   const [virtualElement, setVirtualElement] = React.useState<PositioningVirtualElement | undefined>(initialState);
 
-  const setVirtualMouseTarget = (event: React.MouseEvent | MouseEvent | undefined | null) => {
+  const setVirtualMouseTarget: SetVirtualMouseTarget = event => {
     if (event === undefined || event === null) {
       setVirtualElement(undefined);
       return;