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Running a business can be both difficult and challenging.

Leslie Lawrence is doing what she can to get her business off the ground, and she believes she has a niche: music therapy.

Lawrence, who lives in Edmonds and grew up on Camano Island, is the founder and owner of Chrysalis Music Therapy. Her business involves the clinical and evidence-based use of music as a tool to accomplish nonmusical goals within a therapeutic relationship with a credentialed professional.

These can include social, emotional, cognitive, and physical goals to promote wellness, quality of life, emotion regulation, a...