diff --git a/typesense/Cargo.toml b/typesense/Cargo.toml
index f86b5dd5..5f8fc248 100644
--- a/typesense/Cargo.toml
+++ b/typesense/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ trybuild = "1.0.42"
 # native-only dev deps
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { workspace = true}
+tokio-rustls = "0.26"
+rcgen = "0.14"
 wiremock = "0.6"
 
 # wasm test deps
@@ -64,4 +66,4 @@ required-features = ["derive"]
 
 [[test]]
 name = "client"
-path = "tests/client/mod.rs"
\ No newline at end of file
+path = "tests/client/mod.rs"
diff --git a/typesense/src/client/mod.rs b/typesense/src/client/mod.rs
index f42cfb71..e6fe5576 100644
--- a/typesense/src/client/mod.rs
+++ b/typesense/src/client/mod.rs
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ impl Client {
     /// - **healthcheck_interval**: 60 seconds.
     /// - **retry_policy**: Exponential backoff with a maximum of 3 retries. (disabled on WASM)
     /// - **connection_timeout**: 5 seconds. (disabled on WASM)
+    /// - **additional_root_certificates**: None. (not available on WASM)
     #[builder]
     pub fn new(
         /// The Typesense API key used for authentication.
@@ -235,6 +236,11 @@ impl Client {
         #[builder(default = Duration::from_secs(5))]
         /// The timeout for each individual network request.
         connection_timeout: Duration,
+
+        #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+        #[builder(default = vec![])]
+        /// The list of custom headers to add to each request.
+        additional_root_certificates: Vec<reqwest::Certificate>,
     ) -> Result<Self, &'static str> {
         let is_nearest_node_set = nearest_node.is_some();
 
@@ -248,12 +254,16 @@ impl Client {
                     .expect("Failed to build reqwest client");
 
                 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-                let http_client = ReqwestMiddlewareClientBuilder::new(
-                    reqwest::Client::builder()
-                        .timeout(connection_timeout)
-                        .build()
-                        .expect("Failed to build reqwest client"),
-                )
+                let http_client = ReqwestMiddlewareClientBuilder::new({
+                    let builder = reqwest::Client::builder().timeout(connection_timeout);
+                    let builder = additional_root_certificates
+                        .iter()
+                        .fold(builder, |builder, certificate| {
+                            builder.add_root_certificate(certificate.clone())
+                        });
+
+                    builder.build().expect("Failed to build reqwest client")
+                })
                 .with(RetryTransientMiddleware::new_with_policy(retry_policy))
                 .build();
 
diff --git a/typesense/tests/client/mod.rs b/typesense/tests/client/mod.rs
index 41882a93..5f557522 100644
--- a/typesense/tests/client/mod.rs
+++ b/typesense/tests/client/mod.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ mod operations_test;
 mod presets_test;
 mod stemming_dictionaries_test;
 mod stopwords_test;
+#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+mod tls_certificate_test;
 
 use std::time::Duration;
 use typesense::{Client, ExponentialBackoff};
diff --git a/typesense/tests/client/tls_certificate_test.rs b/typesense/tests/client/tls_certificate_test.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..797d7d6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/typesense/tests/client/tls_certificate_test.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+use std::{
+    net::{IpAddr, Ipv4Addr},
+    sync::Arc,
+    time::Duration,
+};
+use tokio::{
+    io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt as _},
+    net::TcpListener,
+};
+use tokio_rustls::{
+    TlsAcceptor,
+    rustls::{
+        self, ServerConfig,
+        pki_types::{CertificateDer, PrivateKeyDer},
+    },
+};
+use typesense::ExponentialBackoff;
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn test_tls_certificate() {
+    rustls::crypto::aws_lc_rs::default_provider()
+        .install_default()
+        .expect("Failed to install crypto provider");
+
+    let api_key = "xxx-api-key";
+
+    // generate a self-signed key pair and build TLS config out of it
+    let (cert, key) = generate_self_signed_cert();
+    let tls_config = ServerConfig::builder()
+        .with_no_client_auth()
+        .with_single_cert(vec![cert.clone()], key)
+        .expect("failed to build TLS config");
+
+    let localhost = IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST);
+    let listener = TcpListener::bind((localhost, 0))
+        .await
+        .expect("Failed to bind to address");
+    let server_addr = listener.local_addr().expect("Failed to get local address");
+
+    // spawn a handler which handles one /health request over a TLS connection
+    let handler = tokio::spawn(mock_node_handler(listener, tls_config, api_key));
+
+    let client_cert = reqwest::Certificate::from_der(&cert)
+        .expect("Failed to convert certificate to Certificate");
+    let client = typesense::Client::builder()
+        .nodes(vec![format!("https://localhost:{}", server_addr.port())])
+        .api_key(api_key)
+        .additional_root_certificates(vec![client_cert])
+        .healthcheck_interval(Duration::from_secs(9001)) // we'll do a healthcheck manually
+        .retry_policy(ExponentialBackoff::builder().build_with_max_retries(0)) // no retries
+        .connection_timeout(Duration::from_secs(1)) // short
+        .build()
+        .expect("Failed to create Typesense client");
+
+    // request /health
+    client
+        .operations()
+        .health()
+        .await
+        .expect("Failed to get collection health");
+
+    handler.await.expect("Failed to join handler");
+}
+
+fn generate_self_signed_cert() -> (CertificateDer<'static>, PrivateKeyDer<'static>) {
+    let pair = rcgen::generate_simple_self_signed(["localhost".into()])
+        .expect("Failed to generate self-signed certificate");
+    let cert = pair.cert.der().clone();
+    let signing_key = pair.signing_key.serialize_der();
+    let signing_key = PrivateKeyDer::try_from(signing_key)
+        .expect("Failed to convert signing key to PrivateKeyDer");
+    (cert, signing_key)
+}
+
+async fn mock_node_handler(listener: TcpListener, tls_config: ServerConfig, api_key: &'static str) {
+    let tls_acceptor = TlsAcceptor::from(Arc::new(tls_config));
+    let (stream, _addr) = listener
+        .accept()
+        .await
+        .expect("Failed to accept connection");
+    let mut stream = tls_acceptor
+        .accept(stream)
+        .await
+        .expect("Failed to accept TLS connection");
+
+    let mut buf = vec![0u8; 1024];
+    stream
+        .read(&mut buf[..])
+        .await
+        .expect("Failed to read request");
+    let request = String::from_utf8(buf).expect("Failed to parse request as UTF-8");
+    assert!(request.contains("/health"));
+    assert!(request.contains(api_key));
+
+    // mock a /health response
+    let response = r#"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\
+Content-Type: application/json;\r\n\
+Connection: close\r\n
+
+{"ok": true}"#;
+    stream
+        .write_all(&response.as_bytes())
+        .await
+        .expect("Failed to write to stream");
+    stream.shutdown().await.expect("Failed to shutdown stream");
+}