She has an amazing schedule with you! Good job done!
RE the carpet - you may not be thoroughly enough cleaning up the pee stain. You need an enzymatic cleaner and one that will soak through right down to the pad. If she is truly peeing in the same spot - you can also try a pee pad right there, until you clean up all that wonderfull pee smell.
I too would wait on puppy Prozac - have you tried rescue remedy? Also there is an old but true adage - a tired dog, is a good dog! I know that in wintertime it is hard to get enough exercise - when it is so cold outdoors.
Here are some thoughts for you - play a game of hide n seek. Hide a toy or a treat and ask her to find it. You start small step by step. Have her in sit stay - take 3 paper plates and place them face down on the floor about 3feet away from her. Take one treat and place under paper plate and let her see you do that. Release her from her Stay command and say Find IT.
Stair work - If you have either stairs at home or at work when you take a break. Here is a stair by stair work up. You sit on one or two stairs above her and she is on the ground level. ask her to come for her treat. She will walk up the step and then you hand out the treat a little above her nose. She will normally lift up to try to eat treat. Let her have it! Next time lift above her nose higher so that she begins to rest her two front paws on the upper step with her neck stretched up for the treat. Work on having her hold it longer and longer before you reward her.
Leash walking (on an easy lead in the house) Now to make this fun and interesting. Leash up your gal, after you have prepared a bit of an obstacle course for her. For example : in the kitchen you can have a low height stool placed directly in her path - and the first time through you let her go under it, or on top of it, BUT not around it. Reward either action with a treat.
In the living room prepare a Zig Zag course using throw pillows, or bricks, or biggish plastic Tupperware containers, and say a empty roasting dish.
Here the idea is at each piece of equipment you want her to do something different. In the empty roasting dish for example you would like her to jump in it and come to a sit. Reward for jumping in, and reward for Sitting too.
For the throw pillows you would like her to Climb up on the first one, go around the second one, and Lay down on the third one.
Dependent on the size of the Tupperware container - at first you might like her to just walk over the plastic lid, and then stretch her neck down into the bowl to get a treat!
Now all this is about fun and exercise. Be patient with her and with yourself too! Laugh lots at fun and silly mistakes.
But I did hear something in your first post, are you thinking about changing jobs and or moving to a new home, where-in you think you will not be able to spend as much time with her?
If so, start now, to let her be without you starting with a couple of hours a day. Use an Xpen with a bed and some safe toys with-in it. Start maybe on the weekend - go out to the gym yourself for 2 hrs or shopping, have her in the Xpen. Don't make a big deal about leaving or returning. If she starts to whine and bark and cry when you return - first ignore her don't go into to see her, then if she continues use your Quiet command, and if she quiets immediately go in and reward her with a treat or a petting, and then let her out.
That's all I have for now. Good luck with your gal.
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