She previously played for Inverness CTS, Aberdeen, Hibernian, Yeovil Town in England's Women's Super League (FA WSL), Glasgow City and Rangers.
[1] In January 2016 she joined Scottish Women's Premier League title challengers Hibernian.
[5] In January 2021, McLauchlan joined Rangers on a pre-contract agreement arranged in summer 2020,[6] with Glasgow City teammates Kirsty Howat and Sam Kerr doing likewise, while Nicola Docherty had made the same move across the city some months earlier.
[11] McLauchlan made her debut for the Scotland national team in a 7–0 friendly thrashing by the Netherlands, in Livingston, in October 2016.
In June 2017, Scotland coach Anna Signeul named McLauchlan in her squad for Euro 2017.