In the sentence you wrote, learning is a gerund, not present continuous; the present continuous would be "she is learning."
Help is normally used as in the following sentences:
Mary's companion helped her with the rent.
She helped him find a buyer.
Mary helped out in the corner store.
Searching for phrases matching
help <personal pronoun> <gerund> on the Corpus of Contemporary American English, I found the following sentences.
Stephanie was able to identify notes, but it didn't help her playing.
If not, there are other tricks he can try: spinning the hull against the sphere's fixed inner platform, or even God help them popping open the hatch to serve as a kind of fin or rudder.
My triffle is to help me following you, so we get there.
And at certain point, I decided I couldn't make a great deal of difference in the world of chess anymore, but my presence in Russia, in my native land, could help us fighting for democracy.
So, this only tells us about the survivors and it can't really help us making the decisions at the bedside.
Those sentences are very minimal, compared with the phrase matching
help <personal pronoun> <infinitive>.
Notice that cannot help, and could not help are used to also mean cannot avoid, and could not avoid, as in the following sentences:
She could not help laughing.
You can't help but agree.
Cannot help oneself, and could not help oneself are used to mean "cannot stop oneself from acting in a certain way," and "could not stop oneself from acting in a certain way" as in the following sentence.
She couldn't help herself; she burst into tears.