This study examined how clients discursively constructed non-agency in their first session of individual psychotherapy. The data comprised videotaped and verbatim transcribed first sessions from nine therapies and was analyzed by open reading and focus on the linguistic exposition of the therapeutic dyads' expressions. Using theory-based considerations and data-based analysis of the expressions of both clients and therapists in their talk, we created a model of discursive means for ascribing agentic or non-agentic positions, the 10 Discursive Tools model (10DT). Here we focused on how the client, when presenting his/her issues, displayed problematic or lacking agency by ascribing him/herself a non-agentic position using the non-agency tools. There was large variability in the frequency of use of the non-agency tools, in how the tools were used in combination with each other, and in how the clients moved from one tool to another. The clients could not be classified according to their non-agency tool use patterns. The content of the clients' problems did not determine which tools were used to construct the non-agentic positioning, that is, the client could speak about the same problem with a variety of different non-agency tools, and the same tools were used when positioning towards a variety of issues. The study shows the potential of the 10DT model for the detailed examination of presentations of "not-being-able" produced by clients in psychotherapy discourse, and it suggests that therapists pay close attention to this diversity of expressions.