Remove background with elements 11

I have a photograph with a person on it and would like to remove the background so I can cut the person out and place on a white background. I have tried the erasrue tool but when I get too close to the edge it is not differentiating between the person and the background - the colours are not hugely different. I have tried different ways of doing it with discontinuous option. on demos, it points to the sampling option but that doesn't seem to be available as an option. I have also tried using the selection tool but it is difficult/impossible for me to accurately capture the body of the person only as it traces elements of the door behind the person. I am hoping for an option which does not take a long time but is also precise as I have a few shots like this to do.

team barker,
I used the magnetic lasso tool to select this young lady. On the tool's option bar, I set feather=1px, width=3px, contrast= 3%, frequency=57. Note that when you use this tool, you click and release the mouse button, and work your way arouind from the starting point so as to end up with a complete selection. Once this is accomplished, you should see "marching ants." You can lay down an additional anchor point at any time with a left mouse click, and go back with the delete key on the keyboard.
Open file
Go to enhance menu>adjust lighting>levels and move the right slider a little to the left, and the left slider a little towards the right
Use the magnetic lasso tool to select the young lady, then place her on a separate layer (CTRL+J).
Open a blank layer below the layer created in step #3, and fill with white
I took the liberty to try something else -- blurred the background.

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