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For several years now I have been helping families with a Turkish immigration background to think about their relationship to parenthood. By turning towards me they are looking for someone with whom they can express themselves in their mother language. The evolution of my psychosocial and intercultural practice has led me to understand that language serves as an umbrella for a much more complex process involved in the relationship to oneself, the other and institutions. This work of accompaniment has led me to open a group clinical space in which each person can deposit his/her experience in its different social and cultural inscriptions. The Turkish community has the acknowledged specificity of living between themselves. These families thus had to find themselves a “professional” with the “same” background who could deal with questions linked to their way of being a parent in France. The dialectic of the “same” and the “different” plays an important role in the set-up by accounting for a profound split in the internalisation of the forms of attachment and its reactualisation in its relations to parenthood and its institutional relations.