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The increase of Chinese migration to France since the 1990s has led more Chinese families to consult the transcultural psychiatric sector. Transcultural consultations were initially developed in the 1980s to accommodate immigrants who came primarily from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. But are these consultations suitable for Chinese families? In our experience with these families, the use of animistic etiologies involving the invisible world is very limited, depriving us of an effective therapeutic process. The expression of affects is also very limited. However, building a therapeutic alliance enables work on migratory stories, linguistic elements, and naming processes, and it also enables the group envelope to have its positive effects. Without falling into a reductive culturalism, these elements suggest adapting the modes of reception of Chinese families, based on certain traits of Chinese culture.