You let her know that death is just a part of life and that she should remember the good times she had with Dini and that this may open up her love to another hamster or something else she may not have had room for in the past.
Sarah slowly starts to open up more about how much Dini filled in the gap when her relationship with her father became more distant during her studies and how she never gets to see him because her mother is always planning these elaborate vacations and now Dini’s been the closest thing she’s had to family.
This is getting way deeper than you ever thought it would be, maybe Dini was something symbolic of something greater going on in her life.
What do you do?
Convince her to go get therapy
On the other hand, her insurance doesn’t cover therapy, better psychoanalyze her