diff --git a/packages/grpc-js/src/channel-credentials.ts b/packages/grpc-js/src/channel-credentials.ts
index 02c9c309..94b66c1b 100644
--- a/packages/grpc-js/src/channel-credentials.ts
+++ b/packages/grpc-js/src/channel-credentials.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  *
  */
 
-import { ConnectionOptions, createSecureContext, PeerCertificate } from 'tls';
+import { ConnectionOptions, createSecureContext, PeerCertificate, SecureContext } from 'tls';
 
 import { CallCredentials } from './call-credentials';
 import { CIPHER_SUITES, getDefaultRootsData } from './tls-helpers';
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ export abstract class ChannelCredentials {
    * @param rootCerts The root certificate data.
    * @param privateKey The client certificate private key, if available.
    * @param certChain The client certificate key chain, if available.
+   * @param verifyOptions Additional options to modify certificate verification
    */
   static createSsl(
     rootCerts?: Buffer | null,
@@ -130,14 +131,35 @@ export abstract class ChannelCredentials {
         'Certificate chain must be given with accompanying private key'
       );
     }
+    const secureContext = createSecureContext({
+      ca: rootCerts ?? getDefaultRootsData() ?? undefined,
+      key: privateKey ?? undefined,
+      cert: certChain ?? undefined,
+      ciphers: CIPHER_SUITES,
+    });
     return new SecureChannelCredentialsImpl(
-      rootCerts || getDefaultRootsData(),
-      privateKey || null,
-      certChain || null,
-      verifyOptions || {}
+      secureContext,
+      verifyOptions ?? {}
     );
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Return a new ChannelCredentials instance with credentials created using
+   * the provided secureContext. The resulting instances can be used to
+   * construct a Channel that communicates over TLS. gRPC will not override
+   * anything in the provided secureContext, so the environment variables
+   * GRPC_SSL_CIPHER_SUITES and GRPC_DEFAULT_SSL_ROOTS_FILE_PATH will
+   * not be applied.
+   * @param secureContext The return value of tls.createSecureContext()
+   * @param verifyOptions Additional options to modify certificate verification
+   */
+  static createFromSecureContext(secureContext: SecureContext, verifyOptions?: VerifyOptions): ChannelCredentials {
+    return new SecureChannelCredentialsImpl(
+      secureContext,
+      verifyOptions ?? {}
+    )
+  }
+
   /**
    * Return a new ChannelCredentials instance with no credentials.
    */
@@ -170,18 +192,10 @@ class SecureChannelCredentialsImpl extends ChannelCredentials {
   connectionOptions: ConnectionOptions;
 
   constructor(
-    private rootCerts: Buffer | null,
-    private privateKey: Buffer | null,
-    private certChain: Buffer | null,
+    private secureContext: SecureContext,
     private verifyOptions: VerifyOptions
   ) {
     super();
-    const secureContext = createSecureContext({
-      ca: rootCerts || undefined,
-      key: privateKey || undefined,
-      cert: certChain || undefined,
-      ciphers: CIPHER_SUITES,
-    });
     this.connectionOptions = { 
       secureContext
     };
@@ -210,19 +224,10 @@ class SecureChannelCredentialsImpl extends ChannelCredentials {
       return true;
     }
     if (other instanceof SecureChannelCredentialsImpl) {
-      if (!bufferOrNullEqual(this.rootCerts, other.rootCerts)) {
-        return false;
-      }
-      if (!bufferOrNullEqual(this.privateKey, other.privateKey)) {
-        return false;
-      }
-      if (!bufferOrNullEqual(this.certChain, other.certChain)) {
-        return false;
-      }
       return (
-        this.verifyOptions.checkServerIdentity ===
-        other.verifyOptions.checkServerIdentity
-      );
+        this.secureContext === other.secureContext && 
+        this.verifyOptions.checkServerIdentity === other.verifyOptions.checkServerIdentity
+        );
     } else {
       return false;
     }
diff --git a/packages/grpc-js/src/index.ts b/packages/grpc-js/src/index.ts
index c4c774d9..4bf1d936 100644
--- a/packages/grpc-js/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grpc-js/src/index.ts
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ export const credentials = {
   // from channel-credentials.ts
   createInsecure: ChannelCredentials.createInsecure,
   createSsl: ChannelCredentials.createSsl,
+  createFromSecureContext: ChannelCredentials.createFromSecureContext,
 
   // from call-credentials.ts
   createFromMetadataGenerator: CallCredentials.createFromMetadataGenerator,