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Working with families with migration-related backgrounds requires appropriate reflection and a capacity to listen. In this context, a therapeutic procedure was designed within a medico-psycho-educational centre to accommodate and take into account the cultural origins and the transcultural situation of such families. This article relates the clinical experience of a mother and her child around tales from the Maghreb oral tradition in the context of a workshop bringing together mother-child dyads. The provision was able to restore the symbolic and dyadic link and activate an authorisation to learn. The remobilisation of cultural representations through storytelling played an essential role in restoring self-esteem (renarcissisation) at an individual level for identity (re)construction.