Do I Need to be Certified to be a Crystal Healer? It's natural to wonder this when you're getting started with your stones; the answer might surprise you! The answer is, no. I don't think that you need to have a certification to learn about crystal healing. In fact, your own journey, learning about crystals is more than valid. It's so empowering, right? When I first started working with my crystals, I had no plans to do this work professionally. It was all for my own personal growth, part of my spiritual work and spiritual practice and it's something that was really enriching in my life and brought me a lot of joy.   I encourage you to get out there and learn all you can from reading books, blog posts or articles online. Also, watching YouTube videos, and first and foremost, hands-on experiential practice with your crystals. In terms of whether or not you need a certification, you absolutely don't, and self-study is a perfectly reasonable pathway to enhancing your knowledge. However, I will say from my own personal experience, when I was working with my crystals by myself, I ran into a lot of hurdles and obstacles that sort of set me back on my path.         I found a lot of conflicting information. I didn't have many people to turn to and ask questions and get support about things that I was experiencing when I was working with my crystals. It was a huge hurdle for me. A big obstacle and I couldn't figure it out on my own.             I needed more mentorship and guidance from people who had been there before me, who could pass on that knowledge, but also from a community of my peers who I could talk about things with. So for that reason, you might be interested in pursuing certification, not even necessarily for the certificate itself, although we'll get to that later, but just for your own personal fulfillment. There's something about my way of teaching I am really good at, and one of my gifts is taking complex subjects and breaking them down so that they're really easy to understand. I hear this from my students all the time, and it's something that I feel so passionate about.             I have the ability to share all these ideas that I've learned in over 20 years of learning about crystals and I want to be able to share all of that knowledge with you in a way that makes sense. In my CCH Program, we focus on building your foundational knowledge first through understanding the science of crystals. Plus how and why they're thought to work for healing and then we go from there. Focusing more on the spiritual side of things. This is really important to have a blending of both of these perspectives and when you're learning something on your own, you don't know what you don't know, right? There's many pieces of the puzzle that you miss or overlook or you aren't exposed to.