Healers that don't want to DPS are like DPSes who refuse to move out of AoEs.

[Xerek]

I have several friends that have recently joined the game as healers, and hearing this attitude (all over, not just here), has them nervous as hell. I tell them their job is to heal. The rest is gravy. Swap into Cleric Stance when comfortable, if just to cast one DPS. Over time you get more comfortable and push it, weaving another in and so on. It's a bonus. Healing is a reactive job, and when you're in Cleric Stance you can't immediately react.

If I'm on AST, I'll be healing, playing cards and dropping a ton of DPS because I'm comfortable with it. If I'm on DRK, only thing I expect out of my healer is to keep me alive. Added DPS is just bonus.

[Taika]

I have several friends that have recently joined the game as healers, and hearing this attitude (all over, not just here), has them nervous as hell. I tell them their job is to heal. The rest is gravy. Swap into Cleric Stance when comfortable, if just to cast one DPS. Over time you get more comfortable and push it, weaving another in and so on. It's a bonus. Healing is a reactive job, and when you're in Cleric Stance you can't immediately react.

Yes, it's good advice to start it slow, even to only swap in CS to cast a single DPS spell and then back, when you're starting out and practicing. One step at a time.

But I'd like to note that healing in this game is not reactive at all, in fact since incoming damage is mostly completely scripted, playing a healer is about knowing the fights and preparing for upcoming damage with shields, topping people up when required and pre-casting heals so that they'll hit right when the big tank busters or AoE hits land. That's also the key to healer DPS: knowing when you'll have time to do DPS and also creating windows for it.