The phrase "assist herself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a person helping or supporting themselves in a particular situation or task.
Example: "She learned to assist herself in managing her time effectively."
Alternatives: "help herself" or "support herself".
The right person would help to buffer the emotional currents that are bound to be present in the room and also subtly assist her in establishing herself in her new leadership role.
Hodis, declared herself willing to assist the investigating commission of the SS court by giving evidence, provided the judges would guarantee her life.
A graduate student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Krishnaswamy studies how technology can assist others with disabilities like herself.
One reason cited in favor of Ms. Black was that the Klein management team would be available to assist her as she familiarized herself with the educational universe.
Woolf herself assists this response.
Her mother was a restorer of Aubusson tapestries, and Louise herself assisted in that workshop as a child, repairing a missing foot here, a leg there.
Smith decided that the only way to really understand the recipes was to try them out herself, assisted by a platoon of graduate students.
Ms. Bloch then sent her a photo of herself assisting Rivera at Rockefeller Center; she had scraped out the word "Merde" on a whitewashed window shown in the photo.
Ms. Peterson has now resumed her career, working as a real estate agent for Coldwell Banker in its Gold Coast office in Chicago, where she sometimes finds herself assisting couples who are relocating because of work.
Like "The Remains of the Day" it's told from the point of view of a somewhat limited narrator — in this case Kathy H., who works as a temporary "carer," assisting people like herself as they make a series of "donations" — allowing their organs to be harvested, that is — before arriving at "completion".
