I would suggest to my friend that if she does not want it ever published, she wants to keep it a secret in perpetuity, do not ask for a patent. Keep it as a trade secret and get protected under the trade secrecy laws. But if she wants a patent it has to be published. She is protected while it is published, and then the patent protects her, and then the world may benefit from her wonderful invention.
Discussing the implications of patenting versus keeping an invention as a trade secret.
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