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The concordance between the processual work of the psychologist in mediated visits, and the maternal functions ensured by the family assistant with a child in care are described. The clinical psychologist is at the interface of these complementary bodies, in an inter- and trans-disciplinary approach guaranteed by a secure institutional meta-framework. Children who are brought to meet their parent(s) in a mediated visit have evolved and deve--loped within a pathological family background. The clinician comes in to assure a function of auxiliary-ego for the child, fostering the emergence of a possible psychic autonomy with regard to his/her relationship with their parents. In foster care, the child will express his or her own relational modalities and will find in the family assistant a new parental figure of identification and attachment. Clémence’s situation illustrates the subjectivising effects of each of the frameworks for intervention and, beyond that, of the inter- and trans-disciplinary work conducted.