The Self is made up of stories, both euphoric and tragic ones thus ‘no stories no self’. Psychotherapy offers interactional space for addressing the tragic aspects of one’s experience. Personal narrative constitutes an important means for the psychotherapist to access clients’ lived experiences. Yet as this paper has aimed to show, the client’s offered small stories are to a great extent facilitated by the psychotherapist. Clients do not often spontaneously produce the stories of pain upon entering the psychotherapy room, rather they tend to be accompanied by the psychotherapist in their narrativity effort. The therapist helps the clients to produce small stories ― in the course of the psychotherapy session ― that give voice to their harrowing life experiences. The therapist’s contributions to the client’s ongoing narrative aim to access and ultimately correct the client’s phenomenological experience, thereby changing his/her understanding of familiar situations and events. The therapist’s involvement in the clients’ trouble-telling not only attempts to orient the interaction toward therapeutic ends, but also greatly contributes to building a therapeutic alliance between the parties involved. It is thus communicated to the client that she/he is fully supported in his/her interactional endeavor by an empathic and understanding listener. By narrating dysphoric experiences in the company of an empathic and involved listener, clients are able to find new meanings to their troublesome experiences and create fresh understandings of themselves. Co-construction of personal narratives in the context of psychotherapy session is realized by the psychotherapist and clients building small stories to evidence yet ultimately change the clients’ big (grand) narratives.